Jony Ive Awarded Stephen Hawking Fellowship For His Influential Role In Modern Technology

Apple’s chief design officer Jony Ive today was awarded the Professor Hawking Fellowship by the Cambridge Union Society. Ive is the second ever recipient of the award, which was created last year to recognize contributions to STEM fields and social discourse.

As noted by Varsity, Ive was announced as the recipient of the Professor Hawking Fellowship during a ceremony today at Cambridge Union.

To choose this year’s Hawking Fellowship recipient, the Cambridge Union’s ‘Hawking Committee’ listed 14 prominent figures in STEM fields, then had three Cambridge academics rank each of them.

The Hawking Fellowship was created by the Cambridge Union Society in 2017, in partnership with Professor Stephen Hawking.

Ive was touted by Charles Connor, Cambridge Union Society President for Michaelmas 2018, as one of the “most influential individuals in modern technology.”

Ive will now give a lecture during the first academic term at Cambridge University’s Debating Chamber. He’s expected to give a “reflection on his career, split with a more general reflection on technology and design as a whole.”