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===Awards and honours=== Hopper is a [[Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology]] (FIET) and was a Trustee from 2003 until 2006,<ref>{{cite news| title = Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Trustees| url =http://www.theiet.org/about/organisation/bot/pdf/september06.cfm | publisher = Institution of Engineering and Technology | date = 13 September 2006| access-date = 8 July 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090619110707/http://www.theiet.org/about/organisation/bot/pdf/september06.cfm| archive-date= 19 June 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> and again between 2009 and 2013. In 2004, Hopper was awarded the [[Mountbatten Medal]] of the [[Institution of Engineering and Technology|IET]] (then IEE).<ref>{{cite news|title=Prestigious Mountbatten Medal Awarded To Professor Andy Hopper |url=http://www2.theiet.org/News/PressRel/z10nov2004.cfm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070422084001/http://www2.theiet.org/News/PressRel/z10nov2004.cfm |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 April 2007 |publisher=Institution of Engineering and Technology |date=10 November 2004 |access-date=8 July 2009 }}</ref> He served as president of the IET between 2012 and 2013.<ref>{{cite news | title = The IET Welcomes its new President | url =http://www.theiet.org/membership/member-news/30a/andy-hopper-welcome.cfm}}</ref> Hopper was elected a [[Fellow]] of the [[Royal Academy of Engineering]]<ref name="whoswho"/> in 1996 and awarded their silver medal in 2003. He was a member of the Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering from 2007 to 2010.<ref>{{cite news| title = Council News| url =http://www.raeng.org.uk/about/fellowship/pdf/newsletter/Autumn_News_2007.pdf | publisher = Royal Academy of Engineering | date = Autumn 2007| access-date = 8 July 2009}}</ref> In 2013, he was part of the RealVNC team to receive the MacRobert Award.<ref>{{cite news| title = Software company RealVNC wins UK's premier engineering prize| url =https://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2013/July/software-company-realvnc-wins-uks-premier-prize | publisher = Royal Academy of Engineering | date = July 2013| access-date = 11 Dec 2017}}</ref> In 1999, Hopper gave the [[Royal Society]]'s [[Clifford Paterson Lecture]]<ref name="patterson"/> on ''Progress and research in the communications industry'' published under the title ''Sentinent Computing'' and was thus awarded the society's bronze medal for achievement. In May 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a member of the Council of the Royal Society between 2009 and 2011. In 2017, Hopper become treasurer and vice-president of the Royal Society<ref>{{cite web | title=Professor Andy Hopper named new Royal Society Treasurer | website=Royal Society | date=2017-08-22 | url=https://royalsociety.org/news/2017/05/professor-andy-hopper-named-new-royal-society-treasurer/ | ref={{sfnref | Royal Society | 2017}} | access-date=2017-12-13}}</ref> and was awarded the Bakerian Lecture and Prize.<ref>{{cite web | title=Bakerian Medal and Lecture | website=Royal Society | date=2017-11-28 | url=https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/bakerian-lecture/ | ref={{sfnref | Royal Society | 2017}} | access-date=2017-12-13}}</ref> In the [[2007 New Year Honours]], Hopper was made an [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] for services to the computer industry.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6217447.stm | work=BBC News | title=UK home computer pioneer honoured | date=30 December 2006 | access-date=25 April 2010}}</ref> In 2004, Hopper was awarded the [[Association for Computing Machinery]]'s [[SIGMOBILE]] Outstanding Contribution Award<ref>{{cite web|title=Outstanding Contribution Award |url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/policy/reports/pdf/dilemmas_of_privacy_and_surveillance_report.pdf |publisher=[[SIGMOBILE]] |access-date=8 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010214247/http://www.raeng.org.uk/policy/reports/pdf/dilemmas_of_privacy_and_surveillance_report.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and in 2016 the Test-of-Time Award for the Active Badge paper.<ref>{{cite web | title=Test-of-Time Paper Award | website=SIGMOBILE | url=https://www.sigmobile.org/awards/tta.html | ref={{sfnref | SIGMOBILE}} | access-date=2017-12-13}}</ref> In July 2005, Hopper was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of [[Swansea University]]. In 2010 Hopper was awarded an Honorary Degree from Queen's University Belfast.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/TheUniversity/GeneralServices/News/ArchivesPressReleases-CampusNews/2010PressReleases/07-2010PressReleases/| work=Queen's University Belfast | title=Queen's University Belfast – 07-2010 Press Releases| access-date=27 November 2011}}</ref> In 2011 Hopper was elected as member of the Council and Trustee of the University of Cambridge and a member of the Finance Committee.<ref>{{cite journal |title=none|date=December 2011|journal=[[Cambridge University Reporter]]|author=Anon |volume=CXLI |issue=7 |pages=61 }}</ref> Hopper serves on several academic advisory boards. In 2005, he was appointed to the advisory board of the [[ECIT|Institute of Electronics Communications and Information Technology]] at [[Queen's University Belfast]].<ref>{{cite news| title = Times Higher Education – On the move...| url =http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=206479§ioncode=26 | work = [[The Times]] | date = 2 November 2006| access-date = 29 November 2011}}</ref> In 2008 he joined the advisory board of the [[Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford]]. In 2011 he was appointed a member of the advisory board of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the [[École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne]].<ref>{{cite news| title = IC Advisory Board| url =http://ic.epfl.ch/page-63299-en.html| publisher = [[École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne]] | access-date = 29 November 2011}}</ref> Since 2018 he has been a Commissioner of the [[Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851]]. He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2021 Birthday Honours]] for services to computer technology.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63377|supp=y|page=B2|date=12 June 2021}}</ref>
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