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Alan Mycroft
Co-Founder & Trustee, Raspberry Pi Foundation / Professor of Computing, Cambridge University
Alan Mycroft is professor of computing in the Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University, where he has been a faculty member since 1984. He is also a fellow at Robinson College and a co-founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
He has degrees in mathematics (Cambridge) and computer science (Edinburgh).
He maintains strong industrial links, having worked at AT&T Laboratories and at Intel Research during academic leave as well as spinning out Codemist Ltd who built the original ARM C Compiler under the 'Norcroft' name.
He is the author of around 100 research papers and has supervised over 20 PhD theses. His research centres on programming languages, their semantics, optimisation and implementation.
He became involved in founding Raspberry Pi for educational reasons. In the early 2000s, students applying for university knew far less about writing programs and how computers work than those of a decade or two earlier as they were taught how to use existing products from industry instead of programming principles or any form of 'vision'.
The Raspberry Pi challenges this - a single-board computer for US$25 with pre-installed
Python and Scratch for easy programming and with a GPIO (General-purpose input/output) connector for controlling external devices. Since its release in 2012 nearly 3 million have been sold.
He has degrees in mathematics (Cambridge) and computer science (Edinburgh).
He maintains strong industrial links, having worked at AT&T Laboratories and at Intel Research during academic leave as well as spinning out Codemist Ltd who built the original ARM C Compiler under the 'Norcroft' name.
He is the author of around 100 research papers and has supervised over 20 PhD theses. His research centres on programming languages, their semantics, optimisation and implementation.
He became involved in founding Raspberry Pi for educational reasons. In the early 2000s, students applying for university knew far less about writing programs and how computers work than those of a decade or two earlier as they were taught how to use existing products from industry instead of programming principles or any form of 'vision'.
The Raspberry Pi challenges this - a single-board computer for US$25 with pre-installed
Python and Scratch for easy programming and with a GPIO (General-purpose input/output) connector for controlling external devices. Since its release in 2012 nearly 3 million have been sold.
