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| name              = Hermann Hauser
| honorific_suffix  = [[Order of the British Empire|KBE]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] [[Royal Academy of Engineering|FREng]] [[FInstP]] [[Chartered Physicist|CPhys]]
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| caption           = Hauser in 2010
| birth_name        = Hermann Maria Hauser
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1948|10|23}}<ref name="whoswho">{{Who's Who | title=HAUSER, Dr Hermann Maria | id = U19478 | volume = 2014 | edition = online edition via [[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref><ref name="nytimes silicon fen">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/04/business/in-old-england-a-silicon-fen.html?pagewanted=2 | title=In Old England, A Silicon Fen | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=4 January 1998 | access-date=14 December 2011 | author=Ibrahim, Youssef M. | location=New York}}</ref>
| birth_place       = [[Vienna]], Austria
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* Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd
* [[Plastic Logic]]
* [[Cavendish Laboratory]]
* [[ARM (company)|ARM Ltd]]
* [[Cambridge Network]]
* [[Olivetti Research Laboratory]]
* [[Virata Corporation|Globespan-Virata Inc.]]
* [[Acorn Computers]]
* [[Advanced Telecommunication Modules Ltd]]<ref name="whoswho"/>}}
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* [[Vienna University]] (MA)<ref name="whoswho"/>
* [[King's College, Cambridge]] (PhD)<ref name="hauserphd">{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Hermann Maria|last=Hauser |title=Mechanically Activated Chemical Reactions |publisher=University of Cambridge |date=1977 |url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.458575|author-link=Hermann Hauser}}</ref>}}
| thesis_title      = Mechanically Activated Chemical Reactions
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| thesis_year       = 1977
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* [[Invention]]s
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* [[Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|KBE]] (2015)<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.iconbar.com/articles/Founder_of_Acorn_Computers_honoured_with_CBE/index1109.html | title=Founder of Acorn Computers honoured with CBE | publisher=Icon Bar| access-date=15 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/honorary-british-awards-to-foreign-nationals-2015|title=Honorary British awards to foreign nationals – 2015|access-date=31 December 2015}}</ref>
* [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (2012)<ref name="royal">{{cite web |url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27EC%2F2012%2F12%27) |title=EC/2012/12: Hauser, Hermann Maria |publisher=The Royal Society |archive-date=30 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130121841/https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27EC%2F2012%2F12%27) |location=London |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="frs">{{cite web | url = http://royalsociety.org/people/hermann-hauser | title = Dr Hermann Maria Hauser CBE FREng FRS | publisher = [[Royal Society]] }}</ref>
* [[Lovelace Medal]] (2011)
* [[Royal Academy of Engineering|FREng]]<ref name="List of Fellows">{{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|access-date=28 October 2014|archive-date=8 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608094405/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|url-status=dead}}</ref> (2002)
* [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (2002)}}
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| spouse            = Pamela Raspe<ref>{{cite web |title=Arm founder Hermann Hauser: 'Brexit is the biggest loss of sovereignty since 1066' |url=https://biz.crast.net/arm-founder-hermann-hauser-brexit-is-the-biggest-loss-of-sovereignty-since-1066/ |website=BusinessNews |date=23 July 2022 |access-date=5 April 2023}}</ref>
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'''Hermann Maria Hauser''' KBE (born 1948<ref name="whoswho"/>) is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and inventor who is primarily associated with the Cambridge technology community in England.<ref name="ft 20 questions">{{cite web | url=https://www.ft.com/content/c27e428c-0ec3-11e0-9ec3-00144feabdc0 | title=20 questions: Hermann Hauser | work=[[Financial Times]]|location=London | date=23 December 2010 | access-date=24 November 2011 | author=Jacobs, Emma | quote=[...] the kingpin of the high-tech cluster, dubbed Silicon Fen [...]}}</ref><ref>[http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/publicity/degree_days/degree_1998/hauser.html Public oration], [[Loughborough University]], 1998</ref><ref name="wired anderson 1996" /><ref>[http://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/articles.aspx?Index=462 Dr Hermann Hauser CBE FREng], ''Ingenia'', Issue 33, Dec 2007</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/hauser.htm|title=Hermann Hauser|access-date=31 December 2015}}</ref>

==Education and early life==
When Hauser was 16 he went to the United Kingdom to learn English at a language school in [[Cambridge]].<ref name="chm">{{citation|title=Oral History of Hermann Hauser|publisher=Computer History Museum|author=Gardner Hendrie|date=2014-06-20|url=http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2015/04/102739951-05-01-acc.pdf|access-date=2016-01-01}}</ref> After a master's degree in physics from [[Vienna University]],<ref name="whoswho"/> he returned to [[King's College, Cambridge]] to do a PhD in physics at the [[Cavendish Laboratory]].<ref name="whoswho"/><ref name="hauserphd"/>

==Career==
Hauser is probably best known for his part in setting up [[Acorn Computers]] with [[Christopher Curry (businessman)|Chris Curry]] in 1978. When [[Olivetti]] took control of Acorn in 1985<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5852/Olivetti-buy-49-of-Acorn-Computers/  | title=Olivetti buy 49% of Acorn Computers
 | publisher=Computing History | access-date=15 April 2010}}</ref> he became vice-president for research at Olivetti, in charge of laboratories in the US and Europe. In 1986, Hauser co-founded the [[Olivetti Research Laboratory]] (ORL) in Cambridge with [[Andy Hopper]], who became the laboratory's director. Hauser's role in Acorn was portrayed by [[Edward Baker-Duly]] in the [[BBC]] drama ''[[Micro Men]]''.<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q4044199|title=Micro Men (TV 2009)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92 | title=BBC Four Programmes Micro Men | publisher=BBC| access-date=15 April 2010}}</ref>

In 1988, Hauser left Olivetti to start the Active Book Company, investing £1 million of his own money.<ref>{{cite news |title=Active Book Prototype Circuit Boards – Peripheral – Computing History |url=http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/21617/Active-Book-Prototype-Circuit-Boards/ |access-date=28 January 2022 |work=computinghistory.org.uk |publisher=Computing History}}</ref> The company sought to develop a portable ARM-based microcomputer "the size of a paperback book", featuring a screen and stylus for interaction and employing a "book" metaphor known as Hyperpage.<ref name="acornuser198909">{{ cite news | url=https://archive.org/details/AcornUser086-Sep89/page/n8/mode/1up | title=Hauser's Hyperpage | work=Acorn User | last1=Atack | first1=Carol | date=September 1989 | access-date=1 November 2020 | pages=7 }}</ref> The company planned to launch its first product after Christmas 1990, featuring an approximately A5-sized reflective display, automatic recognition of printed, as opposed to cursive, characters, and employing a multipurpose chip called Hercules featuring a static, low-power ARM core. A licensing agreement had been signed with Acorn for access to that company's hardware and software technology, and the company was seeking application developers for the platform.<ref name="acornuser199008_abc">{{ cite news | url=https://archive.org/details/AcornUser097-Aug90/page/n8/mode/1up | title=Xmas Launch for Active Books | work=Acorn User | date=August 1990 | access-date=6 May 2021 | pages=7 }}</ref> The Active Book was intended to cost around $2,000, provide eight to ten hours of battery life, and was to run the [[HeliOS|Helios operating system]].<ref name="infoworld19900820_abc">{{ cite magazine | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CjwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA5 | title=Active Book Plans to Offer Pen-Based Computer for Executives | magazine=InfoWorld | last1=Krohn | first1=Nico | date=20 August 1990 | access-date=9 April 2023 | pages=5 }}</ref> Not wanting to repeat the mistakes made by Acorn, which had kept its technology to itself, he demonstrated the Active Book to as many large companies as he could. [[AT&T Corporation]] acquired Active Book in July 1991<ref>{{cite web |title=JPMorgan Chase 2017 Annual Report |url=https://www.jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jpmc/jpmorgan-chase-and-co/investor-relations/documents/annualreport-2017.pdf |website=jpmorganchase.com |publisher=[[JPMorgan Chase]]}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=April 2023|reason=It isn't clear how this report relates to an acquisition made in 1991.}} and incorporated it into their [[EO Personal Communicator]], which was released in April 1993.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jerry Kaplan|author-link=Jerry Kaplan|title=Startup: a Silicon Valley adventure|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1994|isbn=0-14-025731-4|location=New York}}</ref> Hauser became chief technical officer and chairman of EO Europe. Sales did not meet expectations, and AT&T's EO subsidiary folded on 29 July 1994.

In 1990, Hauser was involved in spinning out [[ARM Holdings|Advanced RISC Machines (ARM)]] from Acorn.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hermann Hauser: about the Cambridge venture ecosystem, 17 September 2020 |url=https://trinityjapan.org/2020/08/31/17-sep-2020-hermann-hauser/ |work=Trinity in Japan Society |date=31 August 2020}}</ref>

In 1993, Hauser set up [[Advanced Telecommunication Modules Ltd]] with Andy Hopper. The company was acquired by Conexant Systems on 1 March 2004. He founded NetChannel Ltd in June 1996 as a holding company to begin work on marketing the NetStation. NetChannel was sold to AOL in 1996.<ref name="irishtimes lillington 2012">{{cite news | url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/1108/1224326306603.html | title=From little Acorn grew an angel investor with an eye for the next big thing | newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] | date=8 November 2012 | access-date=12 November 2012 | author=Lillington, Karlin|authorlink=Karlin Lillington}}</ref> He claimed in the 1990s that the networking technology used for [[AppleTalk]] was based on the (unpatented) [[Cambridge Ring (computer network)|Cambridge Ring]].<ref name="compmus">{{cite journal |url = http://www.poppyfields.net/acorn/docs/armdocs/hauser.shtml | title = Missing The Big Time|first = Wendy | last = Grossman | journal = Personal Computer World Magazine |date=May 1993 }}</ref><ref name="wired anderson 1996">{{cite news|last=Anderson|first=Christopher|title=Herman Hauser's Second Chance|url=http://yoz.com/wired/2.05/features/hauser.html|access-date=28 May 2012|newspaper=[[Wired UK]]|date=May 1996}}</ref>

In 1997 he co-founded [[Amadeus Capital Partners]] Ltd,<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr Hermann Hauser KBE – Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy |url=https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/hermann-hauser/ |publisher=[[University of Cambridge]] Centre for Science and Policy}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=M Hermann Hauser Venture Partner/Co-Founder, Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/14005943 |publisher=Bloomberg}}</ref> a [[venture capital]] company, and in 1998 he co-founded [[Cambridge Network]] with [[David Cleevely]] and [[Alec Broers]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://my.safaribooksonline.com/0130654159/ch11lev1sec11 | title=A Gentle Persuasion to Collaborate – Organizing and Building the Cambridge Network | publisher=Safari Books Online | access-date=8 January 2009 | archive-date=9 July 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709190407/http://my.safaribooksonline.com/0130654159/ch11lev1sec11 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2000, [[Plastic Logic]] was founded, with Hauser as chairman.<ref>
{{cite news
| first = Peter
| last = Clarke
| title = Cambridge spin-off to study plastic semiconductors
| date = 27 November 2000
| publisher = [[EE Times]]
| url = http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4168361/Cambridge-spin-off-to-study-plastic-semiconductors-item-1
| work = EE Times
| access-date = 8 June 2011
| quote = [...] Herman Hauser, chairman of Plastic Logic [...]}}
</ref>

On 14 June 2001, the Hauser-Raspe Foundation was registered as a charity to advance education, by Hauser and his wife Pamela Raspe.

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 (company)|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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Illumina delivers its first individual genome sequence to Dr. Hermann Hauser |url=https://www.news-medical.net/news/20090831/Illumina-delivers-its-first-individual-genome-sequence-to-Dr-Hermann-Hauser.aspx |work=News-Medical.net |date=31 August 2009}}</ref>

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]]<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.xmos.com/company/team/dr-hermann-hauser | title=XMOS Dr Hermann Hauser | publisher=XMOS| access-date=15 April 2010}}</ref> Ltd and a member of the board of Red-M (Communications) Ltd. He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of [[University of Bath|Bath]] and [[Loughborough University|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.<ref name="russellgroup 2010">{{cite news|url=http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/russell-group-latest-news/121-2010/4163-hermann-hausers-recommendations-to-government-on-innovation/ |title=Hermann Hauser's recommendations to government on innovation |date=2 April 2010 |access-date=10 April 2012 |publisher=[[Russell Group]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410005902/http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/russell-group-latest-news/121-2010/4163-hermann-hausers-recommendations-to-government-on-innovation/ |archive-date=10 April 2012 }}</ref><ref name="bis.gov.uk 2010">{{cite web|url=http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/10-843-role-of-technology-innovation-centres-hauser-review |title=The Current and Future Role of Technology and Innovation Centres in the UK |date=25 March 2010 |access-date=10 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126024520/http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/10-843-role-of-technology-innovation-centres-hauser-review |archive-date=26 January 2012 }}</ref> Publication of the report in 2010 led to the establishment of [[Catapult centres]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662509/Catapult_Review_-_Publishable_Version_of_EY_Report__1_.pdf|title=Catapult Network Review|author1=Ernst & Young|author-link1=Ernst & Young|date=17 November 2017|website=GOV.UK|access-date=2 December 2017}}</ref> with £200 million of government funding.<ref name="telegraph 2011">{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8499528/WIREDs-top-100-the-top-20.html | title=WIRED's top 100: the top 20 | work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London | date=6 May 2011 | access-date=10 April 2012}}</ref>

He was co-founder of ARM Holdings, the Cambridge-based microchip manufacturer that was bought in 2016 by Japan's SoftBank.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Times|first=The Sunday|title=Rich List 2020: profiles 802-900=, featuring Daniel Craig and Adele|newspaper=[[The Times]]|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/rich-list-2020-profiles-802-900-featuring-daniel-craig-and-adele-z5qvqsq6x|access-date=2020-08-05|issn=0140-0460}}</ref>

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"<ref>[http://www.analog-eetimes.com/news/hermann-hauser-invests-mems-speaker-startup-0 Hermann Hauser invests in MEMS speaker startup] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218064757/http://www.analog-eetimes.com/news/hermann-hauser-invests-mems-speaker-startup-0 |date=18 February 2017 }}, 26 January 2017, EE Times, Retrieved 17 February 2017</ref><ref>[http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/micro-speaker-developer-usound-secures-12-million-euro-for-market-entry-610807005.html Micro Speaker Developer USound Secures 12 Million Euro for Market Entry]. 16 January 2017. PR Newswire. Retrieved 16 January 2017</ref> and in eyeson,<ref>[http://derstandard.at/2000057936084/Milliardaer-Hermann-Hauser-steigt-bei-Softwareschmiede-VisoCon-ein/ Milliardär Hermann Hauser steigt bei steirischer Visocon ein], 19 May 2017, Der Standard, Retrieved 24 August 2017</ref> a cloud based [[Unified Communications]] solution nominated by [[Gartner Inc.]] as ''Cool Vendor in Unified Communications, 2017''.<ref>[https://www.gartner.com/doc/3706737 Cool Vendors in Unified Communications, 2017], 11 May 2017, [[Gartner Inc.]] Retrieved 23 August 2017</ref><ref>[https://www.commstrader.com/news/industry/visocon-named-2017-cool-vendor-gartner/ eyeson: VisoCon Named a 2017 Cool Vendor by Gartner] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825234043/https://www.commstrader.com/news/industry/visocon-named-2017-cool-vendor-gartner/ |date=25 August 2017 }}, 31 July 2017, CommsTrader. Retrieved 25 August 2017</ref>

In 2022, he invested in the Munich based quantum computing startup planqc, a spin-off from the renowned Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and joined the advisory board.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hermann Hauser: about the Cambridge venture ecosystem, 17 September 2020 |url=https://sifted.eu/articles/hermann-hauser-planqc-quantum-computing-news |date=4 September 2024}}</ref>

==Awards and honours==
Hauser was voted the UK's "Computer Personality of the Year" of 1984.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hermann Hauser invests and takes board seat at quantum computing startup planqc |url=http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/935/Hermann-Hauser/#:~:text=In%20March%201979%20Hermann%20Hauser,of%20the%20Year'%20of%201984. |website=www.computinghistory.org.uk}}</ref> In 2010, ''Eureka'', in its "100 most important scientists", placed Hauser at 51.<ref name="physicsworld top uk scientists">{{cite web | url=http://physicsworld.com/blog/2010/10/100_top_uk_scientists_revealed.html | title=100 top UK scientists revealed | publisher=[[The Times]] | work=Eureka | date=7 October 2010 | access-date=24 November 2011 | author=Durrani, Matin | quote=In 51st is entrepreneur and founder of Acorn Computers Hermann Hauser [...]}}</ref> He became patron of [[The Centre for Computing History]] in December 2011, 30 years after the launch of the [[BBC Micro]].<ref name="businessweekly hauser patron">{{cite news | url=http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/hi-tech/13254-hauser-patron-of-new-centre-for-computing-history | title=Hauser patron of new Centre for Computing History | work=Business Weekly | date=12 December 2011 | access-date=13 December 2011 | author=Walker, Alice | location=Cambridge | publisher=Q Communications | quote=Dr Hermann Hauser has been named as patron of the new Centre for Computing History in Cambridge UK. [...] agreed to take on the important role 30 years after the company he co-founded – Acorn Computers – unveiled the BBC Micro [...]}}</ref>

In 2001, Hauser became an Honorary Doctor at [[Anglia Ruskin University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr Hermann Hauser – ARU |url=https://aru.ac.uk/graduation-and-alumni/honorary-award-holders2/hermann-hauser |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=aru.ac.uk}}</ref> On 8 July 2002, Hauser was elected a Fellow of the [[Institute of Physics]] (FInstP) and an International [[Fellow]]<ref name="List of Fellows"/> of the [[Royal Academy of Engineering]]<ref name="List of Fellows"/> (FREng). In May 2004 he presented the prestigious IEE [[Pinkerton Lecture]]. In 2005, Hauser received a [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] for his work as a venture capitalist and entrepreneur.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cambridge Network companies win 'Business Weekly' awards |url=https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/cambridge-network-companies-win-business-weekly-awards |work=[[Cambridge Network]]}}</ref> The award was presented at the annual European Electronics Industry Awards in London.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hermann Hauser FRS – Hughes Hall |url=https://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/about/our-people/seniors-members/hermann-hauser/ |publisher=Hughes Hall, Cambridge |date=28 September 2017}}</ref> Hauser was awarded an Honorary [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] for "innovative service to the UK enterprise sector" in 2001.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hermann Hauser |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/people/hermann-hauser |work=UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose |date=1 June 2017}}</ref> In 1998, Hauser was elected into an honorary fellowship of [[Hughes Hall, Cambridge]], and he was also elected into an honorary fellowship of [[King's College, Cambridge]] with effect from 1 January 2000. In the same year he was awarded the [[Mountbatten Medal]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theiet.org/about/libarc/archives/institution-history/mountbatten-medal.cfm |title=Archives Mountbatten Medallists |publisher=IET |access-date=15 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824223245/http://www.theiet.org/about/libarc/archives/institution-history/mountbatten-medal.cfm |archive-date=24 August 2010 }}</ref>

Hauser was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]] (FRS) in 2012.<ref name="frs"/> His nomination reads: {{centred pull quote|Distinguished as a science-based innovator and serial-entrepreneur whose ventures have been at the forefront of UK innovation. A major contributor to the global technology and growth agendas and an influential member of senior policy making bodies. An inspiration and role-model for generations of entrepreneurs who has been directly involved in many companies, providing enthusiasm, mentoring, and financing leading to technology based wealth creation at scale.<ref name="royal"/>}}

Hauser was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the [[BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT|British Computer Society]] (DFBCS) in 2013 recognising his contribution to computing science in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr Hermann Hauser |url=https://www.bcs.org/events/awards-and-competitions/distinguished-fellowship-distfbcs/roll-of-distinguished-fellows/dr-hermann-hauser/ |publisher=bcs.org}}</ref>

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==External links==
* [https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1120413 Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane  3 September 2008 (video)]

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