was a member of the Council of the Royal Society between 2009 and 2011. In 2017, Hopper become treasurer and vice-president of the Royal Society and was awarded the Bakerian Lecture and Prize. In the 2007 New Year Honours, Hopper was made an CBE for services to the computer industry. In 2004, Hopper was awarded the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award and in 2016 the Test-of-Time Award for the Active Badge paper. In July 2005, Hopper was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Swansea University. In 2010 Hopper was awarded an Honorary Degree from Queen's University Belfast. In 2011 Hopper was elected as member of the Council and Trustee of the University of Cambridge and a member of the Finance Committee. Hopper serves on several academic advisory boards. In 2005, he was appointed to the advisory board of the Institute of Electronics Communications and Information Technology at Queen's University Belfast. In 2008 he joined the advisory board of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. In 2011 he was appointed a member of the advisory board of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He was knighted in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to computer technology. Personal life Hopper married Alison Gail Smith, Professor of Plant Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, in 1988. They have two children, William and Merrill. He is a qualified pilot with over 6,000 hours logged, including a round the world flight, and his house near Cambridge has an airstrip from which he flies his six-seater Cessna light aircraft. References 1953 births Living people Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory British computer scientists British technology company founders Acorn Computers Alumni of Swansea University Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom Businesspeople from Warsaw British businesspeople Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge People from Little Shelford Knights Bachelor