- Session
- 19:27 - 19:27
- Duration: 55 mins
- Publication date: 12 Oct 2017
- Location: Turing Lecture Theatre, IET Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
- Part of event Annual Healthcare Lecture 2017
About the session
Kevin Warwick is Emeritus Professor at Reading and Coventry Universities. His research areas are artificial intelligence, biomedical systems, robotics and cyborgs. Kevin is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IET who has published over 600 research papers. His experiments into implant technology led to him being the cover story on the US magazine, ‘Wired’. He achieved the world’s first direct electronic communication between two human nervous systems, the basis for thought communication. He has been awarded higher doctorates (DSc) by Imperial College and the Czech Academy of Sciences and Honorary Doctorates by 9 Universities. He received the IET Mountbatten Medal, the Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine and presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.