Sophie Wilson, a technologist whose innovative contributions paved the way for today’s mobile phones, tablet computers, digital televisions and video game devices, is being honored this week at the 25th anniversary Computer History Museum Fellow Awards in Silicon Valley.

Wilson, Broadcom’s Director of Integrated Circuit Design, and fellow honoree Steve Furber, professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester, are being recognized for their work on the BBC Micro and design of the ARM processor architecture. …