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Steve Furber, an Uncommon card
Stephen Byram Furber is an English computer scientist, mathematician and hardware engineer, and Emeritus ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 127
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 127 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Steve Furber quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Steve Furber card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
After completing his education at the University of Cambridge, he spent the ____s at Acorn Computers, where he was a principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor.
Answer
1980s. After completing his education at the University of Cambridge, he spent the 1980s at Acorn Computers, where he was a principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. From the Steve Furber article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Arina Rodionova. Arina Rodionova 77 · Edmund Phelps 73 · Steve Furber 69 · John Scott Haldane 65 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- After completing his education at the University of Cambridge, he spent the 1980s at Acorn Computers, where he was a principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor.
- As of 2023, over 250 billion ARM chips have been manufactured, powering much of the world's mobile computing and embedded systems, everything from sensors to smartphones to servers.
- In 1990, he moved to Manchester to lead research into asynchronous circuits, low-power electronics and neural engineering, where the Spiking Neural Network Architecture project is delivering a computer incorporating a million ARM processors optimised for computational neuroscience.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Steve Furber article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Steve Furber
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Steve Furber in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Panagiotis GiannakisUncommon · Society · ATK 74 DEF 53
- SemiramideUncommon · Arts · ATK 68 DEF 59
- SotorasibUncommon · Science · ATK 68 DEF 59
- Wael GhonimUncommon · History · ATK 72 DEF 55
- Arina RodionovaUncommon · Society · ATK 77 DEF 50
- AstrochemistryCommon · Science · ATK 70 DEF 57
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Steve Furber (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Peter Howkins, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
