Education
Born in Yorkshire in 1961, Harter attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield. He went on to the University of Cambridge, where he studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Fitzwilliam College and Corpus Christi College.
Born in Yorkshire in 1961, Harter attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield. He went on to the University of Cambridge, where he studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Fitzwilliam College and Corpus Christi College.
His doctoral thesis, supervised by Andy Hopper, was judged the best United Kingdom Computer Science dissertation of 1990, and was published by Cambridge University Press. He subsequently became a Fellow of Street Edmund"s College and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He is probably best known for VNC, a ubiquitous remote access technology he developed in the mid 90s.
He founded RealVNC in 2002 and remains its Chief Executive.
In recent years he has worked on embedding the technology in Google and Intel products. In 2002 he was elected a Fellow of the The Institution of Engineering and Technology , where he now serves as a trustee.
In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, where he now serves as a trustee. In 2014 he was appointed Chair of the Cambridge Network and in 2015 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Anglia Ruskin University.