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Sophie Wilson | |
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| Born | Roger Wilson |
| Nationality | British[1] |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University[1] |
| Occupation | Chief Architect |
| Employer(s) | Broadcom, DSL Business Unit |
| Known for | Work with Acorn Computers, particularly the BBC Micro and on the ARM processor[1] |
| Website | www.sophie.org.uk |
Sophie Wilson is a British computer scientist. She is known for designing the Acorn Micro-Computer, the first of a long line of computers sold by Acorn Computers Ltd.[3]
Life and career
Wilson was educated at Cambridge University. In 1978, she designed the Acorn Micro-Computer, the first of a long line of computers sold by Acorn Computers Ltd.[3]
In 1981, Wilson extended the Acorn Atom's BASIC programming language dialect into an improved version for the Acorn Proton, a microcomputer that enabled Acorn to win the contract with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for their ambitious computer education project, whereupon the Proton became the BBC Micro and its BASIC was developed into BBC BASIC. In 1983, she designed the instruction set for one of the first RISC processors, the Acorn RISC Machine (ARM), later to become one of the most successful IP-cores (i.e., a licenced CPU core) of the 1990s and 2000s.
Wilson designed Acorn Replay, the video architecture for Acorn machines. This included the operating system extensions for video access as well as the codecs themselves, optimised to run high frame rate video on ARM CPUs from the ARM 2 onwards.
Wilson was a member of the board of the technology and games company Eidos plc, which bought and created Eidos Interactive, for the years following its flotation in 1990, and was a consultant to ARM Ltd when it was split off from Acorn in 1990.
Wilson is transgender and was born Roger Wilson.[4][5]
See also
- Acorn Computers
- Steve Furber
- Hermann Hauser
- Rebecca Heineman
- Danielle Bunten Berry
- List of programmers
- List of transgendered people
References
- ^ a b c "Sophie Wilson@Everything2.com". Retrieved 2010-01-01.
- ^ "Wilson's Website". Retrieved 2010-01-01.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|datefromat=ignored (help) - ^ a b Russell, R. T. "A History of BBC BASIC". Retrieved 2007-06-10.
- ^ "sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering". Need To Know. 2002-01-25. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
- ^ Williams, Chris (08). "BBC4's Micro Men: an interview and review". Drobe. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
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