Eben Upton

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Welsh computer scientist (born 1978)

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Eben Christopher Upton (born 5 April 1978) is the Welsh founder and CEO of Raspberry Pi Holdings and the Raspberry Pi Foundation. He is responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi device. He is a former technical director and ASIC architect for Broadcom.

Education and early life

Eben Upton was born in Griffithstown near Pontypool, Wales, where his mother is from; his father is linguist 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 where he grew up and was educated at schools in Leeds, Birmingham and Ilkley.

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. After his diploma, Upton was a research student in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. After finishing his PhD degree, he earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the Cambridge Judge Business School.

Career

Before working at Broadcom, Upton served as 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 on mobile services, Human–computer interaction (HCI), bluetooth, data dependency graphs. and Fuel Panics: Insights From Spatial Agent-Based Simulation. He has been a visiting Researcher at Intel Corporation, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Ideaworks3D and a software engineer at IBM.

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.

Publications

Upton has published books including the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary with his father Clive Upton. With Gareth Halfacree he co-authored the Raspberry Pi User Guide. Upton has also co-authored Learning Computer Architecture with Raspberry Pi, and Code the Classics - Volume 1.

Awards and honours

Upton has won a number of awards including the Innovators Under 35 (TR35) from MIT Technology Review in 2012 and the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal.

Upton was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to business and education.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2017, and a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (DFBCS) in 2019.

In 2020, Upton was made an Honorary Fellow St John's College, Cambridge. In the same year, he was awarded the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award and made an Honorary Fellow of the IET (HonFIET).

Personal life

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Eben Upton is married to Raspberry Pi co-founder, Liz, whom he met at university.

References

References

  1. Anon. "Eben Upton CBE". Archives of IT.
  2. (2012). "The MagPi Issue 4 – Eben and Liz: The interview".
  3. Manners, David. (11 June 2016). "Eben Upton gets CBE". Electronics Weekly.
  4. [https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/welcome-lance/ "Welcome Lance!"], 25 September 2013, raspberrypi.org
  5. [https://www.raspberrypi.org/files/about/RaspberryPiFoundationStrategy2016-18.pdf "Our story"], Page 3, Raspberry Pi Foundation
  6. MacGregor, Alice. (25 July 2014). "A slice of Pi: Interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton". The Stack.
  7. (10 September 2012). "Raspberry Pi (Trading) limited". [[Companies House]].
  8. "TEDxGranta: Eben Upton talks Raspberry Pi, 12 April 2012".
  9. "Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton – Inspiring future generations with open hardware, The IET, 2 April 2013".
  10. (2013). "Eben Upton: Raspberry Pi". Computer.
  11. {{LinkedIn page
  12. (28 February 2015). "Eben Upton: The Raspberry Pi Pioneer".
  13. (12 Sep 2016). "Raspberry Pi have now sold 10m of their £4 computers which are made in Wales". Wales Online.
  14. Anon. (2023). "Profile: Eben Upton (1996)". Johnian magazine issue 51.
  15. "Eben Upton – Live before Raspberry Pi, 30 June 2016".
  16. Upton, Eben Christopher. (2006). "Compiling with data dependence graphs". University of Cambridge.
  17. [https://archive.today/20121222221155/http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/emba/2012/podcast_upton_raspberry.html Raspberry Pi: Dr Eben Upton, Inventor]
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  20. (2006). "Interacting with mobile services: An evaluation of camera-phones and visual tags". Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.
  21. (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)". Springer.
  22. (2005). "Using visual tags to bypass Bluetooth device discovery". ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review.
  23. (2004). "Static Analysis".
  24. (2014). "Fuel Panics: Insights From Spatial Agent-Based Simulation". IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  25. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160313082853/http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/features/raspberry-pi-interview-eban-upton-reveals-all Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all], Gareth Halfacree, Linux User, February 19, 2012
  26. (27 Jul 2017). "How the iconic Raspberry Pi computer has been given a new lease of life in Wales". Wales Online.
  27. "Interview: Eben Upton".
  28. (2004). "Oxford Rhyming Dictionary". Oxford University Press.
  29. (2012). "Raspberry Pi User Guide". Wiley.
  30. (2016). "Learning Computer Architecture with Raspberry Pi". Wiley.
  31. (2019). "Code the Classics - Volume 1". RPI Press.
  32. "Innovator Under 35: Eben Upton, 34".
  33. (2013-06-24). "Raspberry Pi inventor joins silver medal table". The Telegraph.
  34. {{London Gazette. (11 June 2016)
  35. "New Fellows 2017: Eben Upton".
  36. (2019). "Roll of Distinguished Fellows: Eben Upton". [[British Computer Society.
  37. "Everyday Sexism activist and founder of Raspberry Pi elected as Honorary Fellows of St John's". St John's College Cambridge.
  38. "The IEEE 2020 Technical Field Awards.".
  39. (8 October 2020). "IET announces 16 Honorary Fellows to mark 150th year".

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