The creator of the Raspberry Pi will receive a silver medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering

Eben Upton will be awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences for his achievements in the field of high technology. The inventor won the award for the development of a commercially successful mini-computer Rapspberry Pi, whose sales have already amounted to more than a million units.

Dr. Upton developed the Rapberry Pi to help children learn computer technology and bring up a new generation of talents. He was inspired to create his offspring by BBC Micro, which in the 80s served as a launching pad in the study of computers for many engineers and technology lovers.

The money raised from selling a device that sells for $ 25 is transferred to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charitable organization whose goal is to popularize computer science in schools.
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Eben Upton at one time worked at IBM, then moved to the post of researcher at Intel, and later founded two companies, Ideaworks3D and Podfun. For his 35 years he received a doctorate in computer science and an MBA from the University of Cambridge.

It is also worth noting that Dr. Andrew Fitzgibon, famous for his computer vision research, was another silver medal nominee. It was this man who was behind the creation of the technology that formed the basis of the Kinect wireless controller for the Xbox.

Based on telegraph.co.uk

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