Broadcom’s Eben Upton and his so-simple-it’s-revolutionary Raspberry Pi have been recognized in this year’s class of “35 Innovators Under 35” by MIT’s Technology Review, which seeks young innovators whose “work is likely to be influential for a very long time.”
Upton, Technical Director in the Mobile and Wireless Group at Broadcom’s Cambridge, UK, office, helped create the Raspberry Pi, a $25 computer that’s ripe for tinkering.
Read Broadcom’s news release.
The aim of the affordable device is to inspire young people to explore computer science and boost teaching basic programming in schools, according to Technology Review’s profile:
“Being a hardware guy at heart, Upton went ahead and built a prototype of a next-generation hobbyist machine — the sort of stripped-down device that would enable its users to become acquainted with the guts of a computer. It would also allow its users to put the machine to work in projects ranging from robotics to wearable computing to gaming.”
Raspberry Pi
This year’s “35 Innovators Under 35” honorees include the founders of Pinterest and Spotify, as well as young pioneers in hardware, electronics, nanotechnology and other tech fields.
They will be honored at the EmTech MIT 2012 conference in October at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge.Congratulations to Eben and the entire Raspberry Pi Foundation!
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