The Pinkerton lecture series is held by the
Institution of Engineering and Technology
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution. The IET was formed in 2006 from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), dating back to 1871, and ...
in commemoration and honour of
John Pinkerton
John Pinkerton (17 February 1758 – 10 March 1826) was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic racial supremacy theory.
He was born in Edinburgh, as one of three sons to ...
, the pivotal engineer who was involved with designing the UK's first business computer in 1951. The first lecture was held in 2000 and the event has taken place every year since then.
The Lecturers
*2000
Maurice Wilkes
*2001
David Caminer
*2002
David Cleevely
*2004
Hermann Hauser
Hermann Maria Hauser, KBE, FRS, FREng, FInstP, CPhys (born 1948) is an Austrian-born entrepreneur, venture capitalist and inventor who is primarily associated with the Cambridge technology community in England.
Education and early life
W ...
*2005 Subhash Bhatnagar
*2006
Tony Hey
*2007
Tim Berners-Lee
*2008 Alex Balfour
*2009 John Carey
*2010
Steve Furber
*2011 Mike Short
*2012
Kevin Warwick
Kevin Warwick (born 9 February 1954) is an English engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University. He is known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, and has also done ...
*2013
Robin Saxby
Sir Robin Keith Saxby FREng Fellow of the Royal Society, HonFRS (born 4 February 1947) is an English engineer who was chief executive and then chairman of ARM Holdings, which he built to become a dominant supplier of embedded systems.
Early l ...
*2014 Jim Morrish
*2015
Robert Pepper
See also
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Turing Talk
References
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