Stephen Byram Furber is probably best known for his work at Acorn where he was one of the designers of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor.

He is the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.

He attended Manchester Grammar School

• In 1970 he represented the UK in the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hungary
• In 1974 he received a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, England
• In 1978 he was the Rolls-Royce Research Fellow in Aerodynamics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge
• In 1980 was awarded a Ph.D. in Aerodynamics by Cambridge
• From 1980 to 1990 he worked at Acorn Computers Ltd where he was a Hardware Designer and then Design Manager. He was a principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM microprocessor
• When the Advanced Research and Development section of Acorn was spun off as ARM Ltd in 1990, he moved to the Victoria University of Manchester to become the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering and established the Amulet research group
• In February 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society
• In 1998 he was a member fo the Working Group on Asynchronous Circuit Design (ACiD-WG)
• In 2002 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
• In 2002 he was Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry into microprocessor technology
• In 2003 he was a member of the EPSRC research cluster in biologically-inspired novel computation
• On 16 September 2004 he gave a speech on Hardware Implementations of Large-scale Neural Networks as part of the initiation activities of the Alan Turing Institute

He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Senior Member of the IEEE

He is on the Advisory Board of Theseus Logic, Inc.