Achievements
In 1999, Hopper gave the Royal Society's Clifford Paterson Lecture on Progress and research in the communications industry and was thus awarded the society's bronze medal for achievement.
In May 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He became a member of the Council of the Royal Society in 2009.
Hopper was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1996 and awarded their Silver Medal in 2003. He was a member of the Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering from 2007 to 2010.
Hopper is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and was a Trustee from 2003 until 2006 and again since 2009. In 2004, Hopper was awarded the Mountbatten Medal of IET and in 2010 he was appointed deputy president of the organisation.
In the 2007 New Year Honours, Hopper was made an CBE for services to the computer industry.
After more than 20 years at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, Hopper was elected Chair of Communications Engineering at Cambridge University Engineering Department in 1997. He returned to the Computer Laboratory as Professor of Computer Technology and Head of Department in 2004.
In 2004, Hopper was awarded the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award.
In July 2005, Hopper was awarded an honorary fellowship of Swansea University.
In December 2008, Hopper was a member of the team carrying out the Capability Review of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
In 2010 Hopper was awarded an Honorary Degree from Queen's University Belfast.
In 2011 Hopper was elected as a Trustee of the Council 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.
Hopper is Chairman of the Emerging Technologies and Industries Steering Group of the UK Technology Strategy Board and is on the Technical Advisory Council for BP.
In 2012 he was appointed president of the Institution of Engineering and Technology for the 2012-2013 year.
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