Academic publisher Oxford University Press and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, have announced that The Computer Journal, a long-established resource to the academic computer science community, will have a new Editor-in-Chief from January 1, 2016. Professor Steve Furber will take over as Editor-in-Chief from Professor Fionn Murtagh, who will stay with the journal as Section Editor.
Professor Furber is most well-known in the field for his hardware development work at Acorn Computers during the 1980s, where he was a principal designer of both the BBC microcomputer and the early ARM microprocessors, and his current SpiNNaker project. He has also received numerous awards and recognitions for his contributions to Engineering and Computing, including his most recent 2014 BCS Lovelace Medal. Professor Furber is currently ICL Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester.
The Computer Journal is one of the longest-established journals serving all branches of the academic computer science community. It is currently published in four sections: Computer Science Theory, Methods and Tools; Computer and Communications Networks and Systems; Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Analytics; and Security in Computer Systems and Networks.
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