Sophie Wilson

Not to be confused with Sophia Wilson.
Sophie Wilson
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Wilson in 2013
BornJune 1957 (age 67)[1][3]
Leeds, England[3]
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Sophie Mary Wilson (born Roger Wilson; June 1957) is an English computer scientist, a co-designer of the Instruction Set for the ARM architecture.[5][6][7]

Wilson first designed a microcomputer during a break from studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She subsequently joined Acorn Computers and was instrumental in designing the BBC Microcomputer, including the BBC BASIC programming language.[8] She first began designing the ARM reduced instruction set computer (RISC) in 1983, which entered production two years later. It became popular in embedded systems and is now the most widely used processor architecture in smartphones. In 2011, she was listed in Maximum PC as number 8 in an article titled "The 15 Most Important Women in Tech History".[9] She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2019.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Sophie Wilson 2012 Fellow was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Sophie Wilson". BCS. 2020. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Oral History of Sophie Wilson 2012 Computer History Museum Fellow" (PDF). Archive.computerhistory.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Sophie [email protected]". Archived from the original on 4 December 2009. Retrieved 1 January 2010.
  5. ^ "Award of Draper Prize". Broadcom. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  6. ^ "Sophie Wilson (Profile)". Computer History Museum. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  7. ^ "Sophie Wilson: ARM And How Making Things Simpler Made Them Faster & More Efficient". Hackaday. 8 May 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Electronics1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Bouman, Amber (1 March 2011). "The 15 Most Important Women in Tech History". Maximum PC. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2012.