hermann hauser, born 1948
TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEUR
Dr. Hermann Hauser is an Austrian-born physicist who took his PhD at King’s College, Cambridge. He founded, with Christopher Curry, Acorn Computers - one of the earliest and leading technology companies in Cambridge. It made its name with the hugley popular BBC Micro computer. Hauser went on to join Olivetti as its head of research, and founded a venture capital company, Amadeus Capital Partners.
This life story is based, with thanks and acknowledgement, on the transcript by Sarah Harrison of a filmed interview by Prof. Alan Macfarlane, University of Cambridge on 3rd September 2008. To view this and other video interviews in the series, click here: Alan Macfarland interviews.
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Source: A re-formatted transcript of an interview by Prof. Alan Macfarlane, reproduced with the permission of Hermann Hauser and Prof. Macfarlane in 2020.