Andy Hopper: Computing for the Future of the Planet
Oceana Room for morning tea,
then Soundings Theatre
Te Papa
Cable St, Wellington
IITP "International Innovators" Presentation:
Andy Hopper, University of Cambridge, UK
Founder of Acorn Computers (creator of the Acorn, BBC Micro and Archimedes range of computers), and Professor of Computing Technology at the University of Cambridge, Andy Hopper is one of the UK's great technology visionaries.
Andy will draw on his extensive commercial and academic success to present a framework for the future of computing in the context of problems facing the planet.
Digital technology is becoming an indispensable and crucial component of our lives, society, and environment, and Andy will argue it is time to take the next step.
The framework has a number of goals: an optimal digital infrastructure, sensing and optimising with a global world model, reliably predicting and reacting to our environment, and digital alternatives to physical activities.
This will be a truly inspiring and thought provoking presentation from one of the global leaders of computing technology of our time.
This is one you won't want to miss.
Schedule
- 10:30am - 11:00am Morning Tea (Oceania Room, Te Papa)
- 11:00am - 12:30pm Presentation (Soundings Theatre, Te Papa)
About The Speaker
Andrew Hopper CBE FRS FREng is the Professor of Computer Technology and Head of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Hopper’s PhD was in the field of communications networks and he worked with Maurice Wilkes on the creation of the Cambridge Ring and its successor, the Cambridge Fast Ring which was further developed into ATM.
Hopper founded Orbis Ltd to develop networking technologies and in 1978 co-founded Acorn Computers Ltd with Hermann Hauser and Chris Curry.
In 1993, Hopper set up Advanced Telecommunication Modules Ltd with Hermann Hauser. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1996 and awarded their Silver Medal in 2003. In 2004 he was awarded the Mountbatten Medal. In May 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
After more than 20 years at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Andrew was elected to the Chair of Communications Engineering at Cambridge University Engineering Department in 1997. He returned to the Computer Laboratory as Professor of Computer Technology and Head of Department in 2004.
In 1999, Hopper gave the Royal Society’s Clifford Paterson Lecture on ‘Progress and research in the communications industry’ and was thus awarded the society’s bronze medal for achievement.
In 1997, Hopper co-founded Adaptive Broadband Ltd (ABL) which was to further develop the 'Wireless ATM' project started at ORL in the early 90s. ABL was bought by California Microwave, Inc in 1998.
In January 2000, Hopper co-founded Cambridge Broadband which was to develop broadband fixed wireless equipment; he was non-executive chairman from 2000 - 2005. In 2002 Hopper co-founded Ubisense Ltd to further develop the location technologies and sentient computing concepts that grew out of the ORL Active Badge system.
In 2005 he co-founded Adventiq a company developing a VNC-based system-on-a-chip.
Professor Hopper is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and has been a member of the IET 'Information Technology Sector Panel' since its inception in October 2002.
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