sold to AOL in 1996. He claimed in the 1990s that the networking technology used for AppleTalk was based on the (unpatented) Cambridge Ring. In 1997 he co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd, a venture capital company, and in 1998 he co-founded Cambridge Network with David Cleevely and Alec Broers. In 2000, Plastic Logic was founded, with Hauser as chairman. On 14 June 2001, the Hauser-Raspe Foundation was registered as a charity by Hauser and Pamela Raspe, to advance education. In August 2004, Amadeus Capital Partners led the Series B venture capital financing of Solexa, and Hauser joined its board of directors. Solexa developed a next-generation DNA sequencing technology which became the market leader; the company was sold to Illumina, Inc of San Diego in January 2007 for over $US600 million. In 2009, Hauser was announced as the first customer of the Illumina Personal Genome Sequencing service. As of 2009, Hauser is the head of the East Anglia Stem Cell research network. Hauser is a non-executive director of Cambridge Display Technology, a non-executive director of XMOS Ltd and a member of the board of Red-M (Communications) Ltd. He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath and Loughborough and from Anglia Ruskin University. He is a member of the advisory board on the Higher Education Innovation Fund, and of the UK's Council for Science and Technology. Hauser was commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to write a report on technology and innovation in the UK. Publication of the report in 2010 led to the establishment of Catapult centres with £200 million of government funding. He was co-founder of Arm Holdings, the Cambridge based microchip manufacturer that was bought in 2016 by Japan's SoftBank. Since 2015, he is actively supporting Austrian start-ups and technology companies. In particular, he has invested in 2017 in the MEMS-speaker start-up "USound" and in eyeson, a cloud based Unified Communications solution nominated by Gartner Inc. as Cool Vendor in Unified Communications, 2017. Awards and honours Hauser was voted the UK's "Computer Personality of the Year" of 1984. In 2010, Eureka, in its "100 most important scientists", placed Hauser at 51. He became patron of The Centre for Computing History in December 2011, 30 years after the launch of the BBC Micro. In 2001, Hauser became an Honorary Doctor at Anglia Ruskin University. On 8 July 2002, Hauser was elected a Fellow of the Institute