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Sophie Mary Wilson DistFBCS (born Roger Wilson; June 1957) is a transgender English computer scientist, who helped design the BBC Micro and ARM architecture.
Wilson first designed a microcomputer during a break from studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She subsequently joined Acorn Computers and was instrumental in designing the BBC Micro, including the BBC BASIC programming language whose development she led for the next 15 years. She first began designing the ARM reduced instruction set computer (RISC) in 1983, which entered production two years later. It became popular in embedded systems and is now the most widely used processor architecture in smartphones. Wilson is currently a director at the technology conglomerate Broadcom Inc. In 2011, she was listed in Maximum PC as number 8 in an article titled "The 15 Most Important Women in Tech History". She was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2019.
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Birth NameRoger Wilson
Birth PlaceLeeds, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesLode, United Kingdom
AwardsCommander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Mullard Award, Charles Stark Draper Prize, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society, Computer History Museum fellow
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