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, 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
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers, and who ...
*2001
David Caminer
*2002
David Cleevely
David Douglas Cleevely, CBE, FREng, FIET (born September 1953) is a British entrepreneur and international telecoms expert who has built and advised many companies, principally in Cambridge, UK.
Telecommunications
In 1985 Cleevely found ...
*2004
Hermann Hauser
*2005 Subhash Bhatnagar
*2006
Tony Hey
Professor Anthony John Grenville Hey (born 17 August 1946) was Vice-President of Microsoft Research Connections, a division of Microsoft Research, until his departure in 2014.
Education
Hey was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and ...
*2007
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a profe ...
*2008 Alex Balfour
*2009 John Carey
*2010
Steve Furber
*2011 Mike Short
*2012
Kevin Warwick
*2013
Robin Saxby
Sir Robin Keith Saxby FREng 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 life and education
Saxby wa ...
*2014 Jim Morrish
*2015
Robert Pepper
See also
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Turing Talk
The Turing Talk, previously known as the Turing Lecture, is an annual award lecture delivered by a noted speaker on the subject of Computer Science. Sponsored and co-hosted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the British C ...
References
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