House of Lords - Science and Technology

Select Committee on Science and Technology Second Report

APPENDIX 1: SUB-COMMITTEE II

Membership

The members of the Sub-Committee which conducted this Inquiry were:

Declarations of Interest

Members declared the following interests in relation to this Inquiry.

Lord Flowers Honorary Fellow and Past President of the Institute of Physics; Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers; Fellow, Royal Society.

Lord Freeman Chairman, Thales PLC; Director, Thales S.A.

Lord Hunt of Chesterton Professor of Climate Modelling, University College London; Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and Applications; Fellow, Royal Society; Chairman and Director, Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd.

Lord Lewis of Newnham Fellow, Royal Society.

Lord Mitchell Chairman, Syscap plc; Trustee, eLearning Foundation.

Lord Oxburgh Fellow, Royal Society; Chairman, SETNET.

Lord Wade of Chorlton President, Campus Ventures Ltd, Incubation Unit, Manchester University; Chairman, Rising Stars Growth Fund Ltd, NW Technology Seed Corn Investment Fund.

Specialist Adviser

The Sub-Committee appointed as its Specialist Adviser Steve Furber FRS FREng, ICL Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester. Since joining the University in 1990, his particular research interest has been in asynchronous logic design and power-efficient computing. Before then, he worked at Acorn Computers where he was a principal designer of the BBC Microcomputer and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor.