“Ive, chief design officer at Apple Inc. and chancellor at the Royal College of Art in London, has been awarded the fellowship whose inaugural recipient was the late Professor Stephen Hawking,” Amy Batley reports for Varsity. “Apple Chief Design Officer Sir Jonathan Ive was announced as the second recipient of the Professor Hawking Fellowship at a ceremony held at the Cambridge Union on Tuesday.”
“The fellowship, created by the Cambridge Union Society in partnership with Professor Stephen Hawking in 2017, is an honorary scholarship to recognise recipients’ contributions to the STEM fields and social discourse,” Batley reports. “Ive, who is responsible for designing the iMac, iPod, MacBookAir, iPhone and iPad, is an honorary fellow of Jesus College. He holds over 5,000 patents and was knighted in 2006 for his ‘services to the design industry’'”
“Hawking delivered the Inaugural Fellowship Lecture in November 2017, in what was one of his last public appearances before his death in March 2018,” Batley reports. “In the announcement, Charles Connor, Cambridge Union Society President for Michaelmas 2018, described Ive as one of the ‘most influential individuals in modern technology.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Congrats, Sir Jonathan Paul Ive!
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Is the award plaque made of rose gold coated aluminium and paper thin drizzled with magic?
On a seri ouu us note. Sure! Well done for the purpose of the award.
Serious…
(10 demerits to Ive and Jobs for thinking that typing with thumbs on glass is a good idea. It’s not, it’s a necessary evil)
I read on a gas station rest room wall that Jony Ive had sex with Gumby toys when he was in elementary school. There were pictures to prove it.
So that’s where you hang out? ‘splains a lot.
And you say nothing about Gumby. You are a heartless white male no doubt. Most likely you played with and molested your dolls as a teenager and young adult and then adult as well.
Corronation to Monarchy on the horizon .
my feelings for Sir Jony can be encapsulated in this:
I’m typing this on a Cheese Grater Mac Pro , one of the best designs ever in desktops, rock solid for years , made by Ive, but I’m still waiting for a replacement.