Professor will receive his CBE from the queen
Professor Stephen Furber, ICL Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester has been made a CBE in the New Year's honours list " for services to computer science".
Others technology names on the list include BT Wales director Ann Benyon, and Dr Roger Hill,technical specialist at SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems.
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