David May (computer scientist)

Michael David May FRS FREng (born 24 February 1951) is a British computer scientist. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol and founder of XMOS Semiconductor, serving until February 2014 as the chief technology officer.

David May
Born (1951-02-24) 24 February 1951
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forTransputer
AwardsFRS (1991)
FREng (2010)
Patterson Medal (1992)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol
Websitewww.cs.bris.ac.uk/~dave/

May was lead architect for the transputer. As of 2017, he holds 56 patents, all in microprocessors and multi-processing.

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