Eben Upton

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Eben Upton
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Eben Upton at the Alan Turing festival, Edinburgh 2012 by Jim Killock
Born Eben Christopher Upton
April 1978 (age 46)[1]
Pontypool, Wales, United Kingdom
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Thesis Compiling with data dependence graphs (2006)
Doctoral advisor Martin Richards
Known for Raspberry Pi
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Spouse Liz Upton[3]
Website
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Eben Christopher Upton (born 5 April 1978) is a Technical Director and ASIC architect for Broadcom. He is also a founder and former trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and now CEO[4] of Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd.,[5] which develops, markets, manufactures & sells highly cost effective programmable computing devices on a global basis.[6] He is also responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi device.[7][8]

Education

Upton completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and Engineering in 1999 at the University of Cambridge. He went on to do the Cambridge Diploma in Computer Science graduating in 2001.[citation needed] After his diploma, Upton went on to study for a Doctor of Philosophy degree in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.[9] After finishing his PhD he completed an executive Master of Business Administration at the Cambridge Judge Business School[10] while working in industry.

Career

Prior to working at Broadcom, Upton was Director of Studies in Computer Science at St John's College, Cambridge with responsibility for undergraduate admissions and organising teaching for St John's undergraduate students on the Computer Science Tripos.

He has been a visiting Researcher at Intel Corporation,[11] Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Ideaworks3D and a Software engineer at IBM.[12]

Publications

Upton has published several books and papers including the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary with his father Clive Upton.[13] With Gareth Halfacree he co-authored the Raspberry Pi User Guide.[14] During his academic career, he co-authored several peer-reviewed scientific papers[15][16][17] on mobile services,[18] Human–computer interaction (HCI),[11] bluetooth[19] and data dependency graphs.[20]

Awards

Upton has won a number of awards including the MIT Technology Review TR35 world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35 in 2012[1] and the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal.[2]

Personal life

Eben Upton is the son of Clive Upton and is married to Liz Upton.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Eben Upton, 34: His ultracheap computer is perfect for tinkering
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The MagPi Issue 4 - Eben and Liz: The interview, August 2012
  4. ↑ http://thestack.com/slice-of-pi-interview-with-raspberry-pi-ceo-eben-upton
  5. ↑ https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08207441
  6. ↑ https://www.endole.co.uk/company/08207441/raspberry-pi-trading-limited
  7. ↑ TEDxGranta: Eben Upton talks Raspberry Pi, 2012-04-12 on YouTube
  8. ↑ Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton - Inspiring future generations with open hardware, The IET, 2013-04-02 on YouTube
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Raspberry Pi: Dr Eben Upton, Inventor
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Haggle: Seamless Networking for Mobile Applications in Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  16. ↑ Eben Upton's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  17. ↑ Eben Upton's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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