Harter is probably best known for
Virtual Network Computing (VNC), a ubiquitous remote access technology he developed in the mid 90s. He founded
RealVNC in 2002 and was its chief executive until March 2018. In prior years he worked on embedding the technology in
Google and
Intel products. in three years and he was named the Cambridge Businessman of the Year in 2011. Harter was elected a Fellow of
St Edmund's College, Cambridge in 2001 and appointed a visiting fellow at the
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in 2002.
Awards and honours In 2002 he was elected a
Fellow of the
Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), where he served as a trustee between 2014 and 2017. In 2010 he was awarded the Silver Medal of the
Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of an outstanding and sustained contribution to software engineering and commercialisation and in 2013 he led the team that won the academy's prestigious
MacRobert Award. In 2011 he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), where he served as a trustee between 2013 and 2016. 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 and also became a trustee of
The Centre for Computing History. In 2016 he was awarded the
Faraday Medal, the most prestigious award of the IET. Harter was appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the
2017 Birthday Honours for services to engineering. He delivered the
Turing Lecture in February 2018, and in March 2018 became the
High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire. In 2019, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. ==References==