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==Honours and awards== Wilson was awarded the Fellow Award by the [[Computer History Museum]] in California in 2012 "for her work, with Steve Furber, on the BBC Micro computer and the ARM processor architecture."<ref name="Sophie Wilson 2012 Fellow">{{cite web |title=Sophie Wilson: 2012 Fellow |url=https://computerhistory.org/profile/sophie-wilson/?alias=bio&person=sophie-wilson |website=Computer History Museum |access-date=15 May 2020 |archive-date=19 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919050533/https://computerhistory.org/profile/sophie-wilson/?alias=bio&person=sophie-wilson |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="electronicsweekly honoured">{{cite news | url=http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/20/01/2012/52772/four-arm-cores-for-every-person-on-earth-furber-wilson-honoured.htm | title=Four ARM cores for every person on earth β Furber, Wilson honoured | work=[[Electronics Weekly]] | date=20 January 2012 | access-date=7 March 2012 | author=Williams, Alun | archive-date=23 January 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123195632/http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/20/01/2012/52772/four-arm-cores-for-every-person-on-earth-furber-wilson-honoured.htm | url-status=live }}</ref> In 2009, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and, in 2013, as a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]].<ref name="frs">{{Cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/people/sophie-wilson/|title=Ms Sophie Wilson FREng FRS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222192147/http://royalsociety.org/people/sophie-wilson/|archive-date=22 February 2014|publisher=Royal Society}}</ref> Wilson received the 2014 Lovie Lifetime Achievement Award in acknowledgement for her invention of the ARM processor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lovieawards.eu/it/features-it/sophie-wilsons-arm-microprocessor/|title=Sophie Wilson's ARM Microprocessor|language=it-IT|access-date=12 March 2019|date=5 May 2015|archive-date=4 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904125953/https://www.lovieawards.eu/it/features-it/sophie-wilsons-arm-microprocessor/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2016, she became an honorary fellow of her alma mater, [[Selwyn College, Cambridge]],<ref name=":2" /> and was received the Royal Society Mullard Award with Furber for their work on ARM.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Royal Society Mullard Award {{!}} Royal Society |url=https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/mullard-award/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250209204630/https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/mullard-award/ |archive-date=2025-02-09 |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=royalsociety.org |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2020, she was honoured as a [[Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society]].<ref name="distfbcs" /> Wilson was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[2019 Birthday Honours]] for services to computing.<ref name=":0">{{London Gazette|issue=62666|supp=y|page=B10|date=8 June 2019}}</ref> In 2022 the [[Charles Stark Draper Prize]] for Engineering was awarded in Washington D.C. to David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, Stephen B. Furber, and Sophie M. Wilson for their "invention, development, and implementation" of the RISC chips.<ref name="Draper1">{{cite web |title=Draper Prize |url=https://www.nae.edu/266390/RISC-Chip-Innovators-Receive-the-2022-Charles-Stark-Draper-Prize-for-Engineering |website=National Academy of Engineering |access-date=11 December 2023}}</ref> The Sophie Wilson scholarship for Scientific Computing was set up in 2024, and is co-funded by Wilson. It supports students to study in the MPhil in Scientific Computing at the University of Cambridge.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Selvini |first=Sam |date=2024-02-06 |title=The Sophie Wilson scholarship in Scientific Computing |url=https://mphil.csc.cam.ac.uk/the-sophie-wilson-scholarship-in-scientific-computing/ |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=MPhil in Scientific Computing |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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