Dr Hermann Hauser, CBE

Career: co-fndr and later chm Acorn Computers 1978 (led devpt of Acorn system 1 and Acorn ATOM, and BBC Basic and BBC Micro Computer), fndr dir IQ (Bio) 1982, vice-pres research Olivetti 1986, fndr dir Harlequin 1986, fndr dir IXI Ltd 1987, co-fndr Active Book Co 1988, co-chm and chief technical offr EO Incorporated 1991, fndr dir Vocalis 1992, fndr dir SynGenix 1993, fndr dir Advanced Displays Ltd 1993, fndr dir Electronic Share Infomation Ltd 1993, fndr and chm Advanced Telecommunications Modules Ltd (now Virata Corp) 1993, fndr Net Products Ltd 1996, fndr NetChannel 1996, co-fndr Amadeus Capital Ptnrs Ltd 1997, co-fndr Cambridge Network Ltd 1998; memb: Esprit Advsy Bd 1986, Foresight Panel 1994, Cncl for Science and Technol 2004-; Computer Personality of the Year 1984; Hon Dr: Univ of Bath 1990, Loughborough Univ 1998, Anglia Poly Univ 2001; hon fell King's Coll Cambridge 1999; FInstP 1998, FREng 2002