Welsh computer scientist (born 1978)
Eben Christopher Upton
CBE
FREng
DFBCS
[4]
[5] (born 5 April 1978) is the
Welsh CEO of Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd., which runs the engineering and trading activities of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] He is responsible for the overall
software and
hardware architecture of the
Raspberry Pi device.
[10]
[11]
[12] He is a former technical director and
ASIC
architect for
Broadcom .
[13]
Life
Eben Upton was born in
Griffithstown near
Pontypool ,
Wales , where his mother is from; his father is language Prof
Clive Upton . He lived in
Lae in
Papua New Guinea between the ages of eight weeks and two and a half years. He then returned to the UK to grow up in
Leeds ,
Birmingham and
Ilkley .
[2]
[14]
[15]
Upton completed a
Bachelor of Arts degree in
Physics and Engineering in 1999 at the
University of Cambridge where he was an undergraduate student at
St John's College, Cambridge . He went on to do the
Cambridge Diploma in Computer Science graduating in 2001.
[16] After his diploma, Upton was a research student in the
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge .
[17] After finishing his
PhD degree, he earned an
MBA at the
Cambridge Judge Business School
[18] while working in industry.
Eben Upton moved production of
Raspberry Pi computers from China to the Sony UK Technology Centre (Sony UK TEC) at
Pencoed ,
Wales in 2012, 15–20 miles from where he was born.
[19]
[20]
Career
Before working at Broadcom, Upton was Director of Studies in Computer Science at St John's College, Cambridge, with responsibility for
undergraduate admissions . During his academic career, he co-authored papers
[21]
[22] on mobile services,
[23]
Human–computer interaction (HCI),
[24]
bluetooth ,
[25] data
dependency graphs .
[26] and Fuel Panics: Insights From Spatial Agent-Based Simulation.
[27] He has been a visiting Researcher at
Intel Corporation,
[24] Founder and
Chief Technology Officer at
Ideaworks3D and a software engineer at
IBM .
[28]
Works
Upton has published books including the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary with his father
Clive Upton .
[29] With Gareth Halfacree he co-authored the Raspberry Pi User Guide .
[30] Upton has also co-authored Learning Computer Architecture with Raspberry Pi ,
[31] and authored Code the Classics - Volume 1 .
[32]
Awards and honours
Upton has won a number of awards including the
Innovators Under 35 (TR35) from
MIT Technology Review in 2012
[1] and the
Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal.
[33]
Upton was appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to business and education.
[34]
He was made a
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2017,
[35] and a
Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (DFBCS) in 2019.
[5]
In 2020, Upton was made an Honorary Fellow St John's College, Cambridge.
[36] In the same year, he was awarded the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
[37] and made an Honorary Fellow of the
IET (HonFIET).
[38]
Personal life
Eben Upton is married to Raspberry Pi co-founder, Liz, whom he met at university.
[3] They have two children, a daughter, Aphra, and a son, Christopher (Kit).[
citation needed ]
References
^
a
b
"Innovator Under 35: Eben Upton, 34" . MIT Technology Review . Archived from
the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2020 .
^
a
b
c
"Eben Upton CBE" . Archives of IT . Retrieved 16 January 2018 .
^
a
b
The MagPi Issue 4 – Eben and Liz: The interview, August 2012
^ Manners, David (11 June 2016).
"Eben Upton gets CBE" . Electronics Weekly . Retrieved 11 April 2017 .
^
a
b
"Roll of Distinguished Fellows: Eben Upton" .
BCS . 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2021 .
^
"Welcome Lance!" , 25 September 2013, raspberrypi.org
^
"Our story" , Page 3, Raspberry Pi Foundation
^ MacGregor, Alice (25 July 2014).
"A slice of Pi: Interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton" . The Stack. Archived from
the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2017 .
^
"Raspberry Pi (Trading) limited" . companieshouse.gov.uk .
Companies House . 10 September 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2017 .
^
TEDxGranta: Eben Upton talks Raspberry Pi, 12 April 2012 on
YouTube
^
Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton – Inspiring future generations with open hardware, The IET, 2 April 2013 on
YouTube
^ Severance, Charles (2013).
"Eben Upton: Raspberry Pi" . Computer . 46 (10): 14–16.
doi :
10.1109/MC.2013.349 .
ISSN
0018-9162 .
^
"LinkedIn" . LinkedIn .
^ Peplow, Mark (28 February 2015).
"Eben Upton: The Raspberry Pi Pioneer" . IEEE Spectrum . Retrieved 23 July 2019 .
^ Haywood, Will (12 September 2016).
"Raspberry Pi have now sold 10m of their £4 computers which are made in Wales" . Wales Online. Wales Online. Retrieved 14 March 2021 .
^
Eben Upton – Live before Raspberry Pi, 30 June 2016 on
YouTube
^
Upton, Eben (2006).
Compiling with data dependence graphs . cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
OCLC
890157114 .
EThOS
uk.bl.ethos.614108 .
^
Raspberry Pi: Dr Eben Upton, Inventor [
permanent dead link ]
^ Barry, Sion (27 July 2017).
"How the iconic Raspberry Pi computer has been given a new lease of life in Wales" . Wales Online. Retrieved 14 March 2021 .
^
"Interview: Eben Upton" . tuxradar.com . Archived from
the original on 20 July 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2021 .
^
Eben Upton publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^
Eben Upton at
DBLP Bibliography Server
^ Toye, E.; Sharp, R.; Madhavapeddy, A.; Scott, D.;
Upton, E. ; Blackwell, A. (2006). "Interacting with mobile services: An evaluation of camera-phones and visual tags". Personal and Ubiquitous Computing . 11 (2): 97.
doi :
10.1007/s00779-006-0064-9 .
S2CID
552244 .
^
a
b
Haggle: Seamless Networking for Mobile Applications in Thomas Strang; John Krumm; Gregory D. Abowd; Aruna Seneviratne (2007). UbiComp 2007: Ubiquitous Computing: 9th International Conference, UbiComp 2007, Innsbruck, Austria, September 16–19, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in … Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI) . Berlin: Springer.
ISBN
978-3-540-74852-6 .
^ Scott, D.; Sharp, R.; Madhavapeddy, A.;
Upton, E. (2005). "Using visual tags to bypass Bluetooth device discovery". ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review . 9 : 41–53.
CiteSeerX
10.1.1.74.3522 .
doi :
10.1145/1055959.1055965 .
S2CID
14720233 .
^ Hymans, C.;
Upton, E. (2004). "Static Analysis of Gated Data Dependence Graphs". Static Analysis . Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3148. pp. 197–211.
doi :
10.1007/978-3-540-27864-1_16 .
ISBN
978-3-540-22791-5 .
^ Upton, Eben; Nuttall, William (2014).
"Fuel Panics: Insights From Spatial Agent-Based Simulation" . IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems . 15 (4): 1499–1509.
CiteSeerX
10.1.1.394.2569 .
doi :
10.1109/TITS.2014.2302358 .
S2CID
7003100 . Retrieved 20 July 2022 .
^
Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all , Gareth Halfacree, Linux User, February 19, 2012
^ Upton, Eben;
Upton, Clive (2004).
Oxford Rhyming Dictionary . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-280115-9 .
^ Upton, Eben; Gareth Halfacree (2012). Raspberry Pi User Guide . New York: Wiley.
ISBN
978-1-118-46446-5 .
^ Upton, Eben;
Duntemanne, Jeffrey ; Roberts, Ralph; Mamtora, Tim; Everard, Ben (2016).
Learning Computer Architecture with Raspberry Pi . Oxford: Wiley.
ISBN
978-1-119-18393-8 .
^ Upton, Eben (2019).
Code the Classics - Volume 1 . Cambridge: RPI Press.
ISBN
978-1912047598 .
^ Hurley, James (24 June 2013).
"Raspberry Pi inventor joins silver medal table" . The Telegraph .
^
"No. 61608" .
The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2016. p. B10.
^
"New Fellows 2017: Eben Upton" . Royal Academy of Engineering . Retrieved 15 October 2022 .
^
"Everyday Sexism activist and founder of Raspberry Pi elected as Honorary Fellows of St John's" .
St John's College University of Cambridge (IEEE) .
^
"The IEEE 2020 Technical Field Awards" (PDF) .
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) .
^
"IET announces 16 Honorary Fellows to mark 150th year" . 8 October 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2022 .
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