Sophie Mary Wilson is an English computer scientist, a co-designer of the instruction set for the ARM architecture. She first designed a microcomputer during a break from her studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge, then joined Acorn Computers, where she was instrumental in designing the BBC Microcomputer, including the BBC BASIC programming language, and began designing the ARM reduced instruction set computer in 1983, which entered production two years later and is now the most widely used processor architecture in smartphones. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2019. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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