1. Eben Upton is responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi device.
14 Facts About Eben Upton
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Eben Upton is a former technical director and ASIC architect for Broadcom.
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Eben Upton was born in Griffithstown near Pontypool, Wales, where his mother is from; his father is linguist Clive Upton.
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Eben Upton lived in Lae in Papua New Guinea between the ages of eight weeks and two and a half years.
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Eben Upton then returned to the UK where he grew up and was educated at schools in Leeds, Birmingham and Ilkley.
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Eben Upton went on to do the Cambridge Diploma in Computer Science graduating in 2001.
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Eben Upton has been a visiting Researcher at Intel Corporation, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Ideaworks3D and a software engineer at IBM.
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Eben Upton has published books including the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary with his father Clive Eben Upton.
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Eben Upton has co-authored Learning Computer Architecture with Raspberry Pi, and Code the Classics - Volume 1.
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Eben Upton has won a number of awards including the Innovators Under 35 from MIT Technology Review in 2012 and the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal.
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Eben Upton was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to business and education.
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Eben Upton was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2017, and a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2019.
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In 2020, Eben Upton was made an Honorary Fellow St John's College, Cambridge.
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Eben Upton is married to Raspberry Pi co-founder, Liz, whom he met at university.