Hermann Hauser
Hermann Maria Hauser ( born 1948 in Vienna) is an Austrian engineer, computer and venture capital business in the UK. He played a leading role in business start-ups in the British Silicon Valley ( Silicon Fen ) in the area of Cambridge.
Hauser attended as a student a language school in Cambridge and studied physics at the University of Vienna ( diploma ) and at Cambridge, where he received his doctorate at the Cavendish Laboratory.
He was known primarily for his contribution to the establishment of Acorn in 1978 with Chris Curry. The company has developed in the UK early personal computer, including the BBC Micro ( developer Steve Furber, Sophie Wilson) and the very successful ARM processor ( the later billions of times used, inter alia in mobile phones found ). Established with 100 pounds, the company was five years later on the stock market worth 200 million pounds. After the company was acquired by Olivetti in 1985, he became Vice President for Research and founded in 1986 with Andy Hopper ( of the line took over ), the Olivetti Research Laboratory ( ORL) in Cambridge. In 1988 he left the Olivetti Active Book Company to found, which should develop tablet computers. Here Hauser tried to learn from the mistakes of Acorn, early to wide dissemination of the technology and to collaborations. The company went in 1991 to EO from AT & T that manufactured the EO Personal Communicator. Hauser was Chairman of EO Europe and senior engineer ( Chief Technical Officer ). The company existed until 1994.
Hauser was also the spin-off of ARM Limited ( Advanced RISC ) machines Acorn involved 1990. The company was a joint venture of Apple ( the ARM used for the Newton ), Acorn and VLSI Technology.
He subsequently played a dominant role as a venture capitalist in the room Cambridge. To this end he founded in 1997 Amadeus Capital Partners with Anne Glover and Peter Wynn.
Other foundations of houses were:
- Advanced Telecommunications Modules Ltd.. 1993 Andy Hopper. The company was sold to Conexant Systems 2004
- NetChannel Ltd.. 1996 marketing NetStation. Sold in 1996 to AOL.
- Net Products
- Cambridge Network Ltd. 1998 David and Alec Broers Cleevey.
- Virata
He was the founding director of IQ (Bio ), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Electronic Share Information Limited, E * Trade UK.
With its venture capital firm he also funded biotechnology research, as 2003 by Solexa ( DNA sequencing technology), which were sold in 2007 for $ 600 million at Illumina Inc.. In 2009 he was president of the East Anglia Stem Cell Research Network. The company also funded CSR plc, Entropic Research Laboratory ( acquired by Microsoft in 1999), Icera ( Nvidia 2011 assumed ), TeraView.
He is on the board of Cambridge Display Technology ( Non Executive Director ), who took over the company Advanced Displays Limited founded by him, and a non executive director of XMOS, Intune Networks, Plastic Logic, Tobii and Cambridge Broadband Networks.
He is a CBE (2001), Fellow of the Royal Society, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Academy of Engineering ( 2002). In 1998 he was Honorary Fellow of Hughes Hall and 2000 at King's College, Cambridge. In 2000 he was awarded the Mountbatten Medal. In 2004 he was Lecturer of the IEEE Pinkerton. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Bath, Loughborough and Anglia Ruskin University. He is in the advisory board of the Council for Science and Technology.
In 1984 he was computer - Personality of the Year in the UK.