Editing Andy Hopper (section)

{{short description|British computer scientist (born 1953)}}
{{about||the member of the Texas House of Representatives|Andy Hopper (politician)}}
{{EngvarB|date=April 2014}}
{{Infobox scientist
| image             = Andy Hopper.jpg
| image_size        = 250px
| honorific-prefix  = [[Professor]]
| honorific_suffix  = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRS|FIET|FREng|size=100%}}
| name              = Sir Andy Hopper
| birth_name        = Andrew Hopper
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1953|5|9|df=y}}<ref name="whoswho">{{Who's Who | title=HOPPER, Sir Andrew | id = U20751 | year = 2024 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.20751}}</ref>
| birth_place       = [[Warsaw]], Poland
| death_date        = 
| death_place       = 
| nationality       = British
| field             = [[Computer Technology]]
| work_institutions = {{ubl|[[University of Cambridge]]|[[Swansea University]]}}
| alma_mater        = {{ubl|[[Swansea University]] (BSc)|[[University of Cambridge]] (PhD)}}
| doctoral_advisor  = [[David Wheeler (computer scientist)|David Wheeler]]<ref name="mathgene">{{MathGenealogy|id=82545}}</ref>
| doctoral_students = [[Andy Harter]]<ref name=harterphd>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|url=http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=9303|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511666384|title=Three-dimensional integrated circuit layout|first= Andrew Charles|last=Harter|date=1990|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.335724}}|website=lib.cam.ac.uk|oclc=321015651|isbn=9780511666384|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
| thesis_year       = 1978
| thesis_title      = Local area computer communications networks
| thesis_url        = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.459643
| known_for         = {{ubl|[[Acorn Computers]]|Active Badge|[[Virata Corporation]]|[[Virtual Network Computing]]<ref name="vnc"/>|[[RealVNC]]}}
| influences        = 
| influenced        = 
| prizes            = {{ubl
|[[Institution of Engineering and Technology|Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology]] (1989)
|[[Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering]] (1996)
|[[Mountbatten Medal]] (2004)
|{{nowrap|[[Fellow of the Royal Society]] (2006)<ref name=frs>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123150416/https://royalsociety.org/people/andrew-hopper-11641/ |archive-date=2015-11-23 |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/andrew-hopper-11641/ |publisher=[[Royal Society]] |location=London |author=Anon |year=2006 |website=royalsociety.org |title=Professor Andrew Hopper CBE FREng FRS }} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{blockquote|"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]]." --{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |access-date=2016-03-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925220834/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archive-date=25 September 2015 |df=dmy-all }}}}</ref>}}
|[[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (2007)<ref name=cbebbc>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/6217283.stm Andy Hopper, IT innovator, awarded CBE]</ref>
|[[MacRobert Award]] (2013)
|[[Royal Society Bakerian Medal|Bakerian Medal]] (2017) }}
| footnotes         = 
| website           = {{URL|http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ah12}}
| spouse            = {{marriage|[[Alison Gail Smith]]|1988}}<ref name="whoswho"/>
}}
'''Sir Andrew Hopper''' (born 9 May 1953)<ref name="whoswho"/> is a British-Polish computer technologist and entrepreneur.  He is Chairman of lowRISC CIC, a Commissioner of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, former Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal Society, Professor Emeritus of Computer Technology at the University of Cambridge, an [[Honorary title (academic)|Honorary Fellow]] of [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]]<ref name="dblp">{{DBLP|name=Andy Hopper}}</ref><ref name="microsoft">{{AcademicSearch|610827}} {{dead link|date=December 2016}}</ref> and [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]].<ref name=alan>[https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1121912 Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 22 May 2008 (video)]</ref>