Phil Moorby (April 25, 1953 – September 15, 2022) was a British engineer and computer scientist.
Moorby received his master's degree in computer science from Manchester University, England, in 1974.
[1] While working in Gateway Design Automation, in 1984 he invented the Verilog hardware description language,[2] and developed the first and industry standard simulator Verilog-XL.
In 1997, Moorby joined startup company SynaPix, where he worked on match moving and video tracking algorithms for automatically extracting 3D models from video frames, using techniques such as optical flow, motion field and point clouds.
[1] In April 2016, Moorby was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum, "for his invention and promotion of the Verilog hardware description language."