51 Facts About Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick was born on 9 February 1954 and is an English engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Coventry University.

Kevin Warwick is known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, and has done research concerning robotics.

Kevin Warwick was born in 1954 in Keresley, Coventry, England, and was raised in the nearby village of Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire.

Kevin Warwick's family attended a Methodist church but soon he began doubting the existence of God.

Kevin Warwick attended Lawrence Sheriff School in Rugby, Warwickshire, where he was a contemporary of actor Arthur Bostrom.

Kevin Warwick left school at the age of 16 to start an apprenticeship with British Telecom.

Kevin Warwick took up positions at Somerville College in Oxford, Newcastle University, the University of Warwick, and the University of Reading, before relocating to Coventry University in 2014.

Kevin Warwick is Visiting Professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague, the University of Strathclyde, Bournemouth University, and the University of Reading, and in 2004 he was Senior Beckman Fellow at the University of Illinois in the United States.

Kevin Warwick is on the Advisory Boards of the Instinctive Computing Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter.

Kevin Warwick has received the IET Achievement Medal, the IET Mountbatten Medal, and in 2011 the Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine.

In 2000, Kevin Warwick presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, entitled The Rise of Robots.

Kevin Warwick introduced the first state space based self-tuning controller and unified discrete time state space representations of ARMA models.

Kevin Warwick has contributed to mathematics, power engineering and manufacturing production machinery.

Kevin Warwick directed a research project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, which investigated the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to suitably stimulate and translate patterns of electrical activity from living cultured neural networks to use the networks for the control of mobile robots.

Previously, Kevin Warwick helped to develop a genetic algorithm named Gershwyn, which was able to exhibit creativity in producing popular songs, learning what makes a hit record by listening to examples of previous successful songs.

Kevin Warwick has very outspoken opinions about the future, particularly with respect to AI and its effect on the human species.

Kevin Warwick argues that humanity will need to use technology to enhance itself to avoid being overtaken by machines.

Kevin Warwick directed the University of Reading team in a number of European Community projects such as: FIDIS, researching the future of identity; and ETHICBOTS and RoboLaw, both of which considered the ethical aspects of robots and cyborgs.

Kevin Warwick's work has been discussed by the USA President's Council on Bioethics and the USA President's Panel on Forward Engagements.

Kevin Warwick is a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on Novel Neurotechnologies.

Kevin Warwick has directed a number of projects intended to interest schoolchildren in the technology with which he is involved.

Kevin Warwick contributes significantly to the public understanding of science by giving regular public lectures, participating with radio programmes, and through popular writing.

Kevin Warwick has appeared in numerous television documentary programmes on AI, robotics and the role of science fiction in science, such as How William Shatner Changed the World, Future Fantastic and Explorations.

Kevin Warwick appeared in the Ray Kurzweil-inspired movie Transcendent Man along with William Shatner, Colin Powell, and Stevie Wonder.

Kevin Warwick has appeared on the cover of a number of magazines, for example the February 2000 edition of Wired.

In 2009, Kevin Warwick was interviewed about his work in cybernetics for two documentary features on the DVD release of the 1985 Doctor Who story Attack of the Cybermen.

Kevin Warwick was an interview subject for the televised lecture The Science of Doctor Who in 2013.

In 2013, Kevin Warwick appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity with Robert Llewellyn and Cleo Rocos.

Kevin Warwick's robots seemed to exhibit behaviour not anticipated by the research, one such robot "committing suicide" because it could not cope with its environment.

The 1999 edition of the Guinness Book of Records recorded that Kevin Warwick performed the first robot learning experiment using the Internet.

Hissing Sid was a robot cat that Kevin Warwick took on a British Council lecture tour of Russia, where he presented it in lectures at such places as Moscow State University.

Kevin Warwick was responsible for a robotic "magic chair" used on BBC TV's Jim'll Fix It.

Kevin Warwick appeared on the programme himself for a Fix-it involving robots.

Kevin Warwick was involved in the development of the "Seven Dwarves" robots, a version of which was sold in kit form as "Cybot" on the cover of Real Robots magazine in 2001.

Kevin Warwick explained that the main purpose of this experiment was to test the limits of what the body would accept, and how easy it would be to receive a meaningful signal from the microprocessor.

Kevin Warwick successfully connected ultrasonic sensors on a baseball cap and experienced a form of extrasensory input.

Kevin Warwick participated as a Turing Interrogator on two occasions, judging machines in the 2001 and 2006 Loebner Prize competitions, platforms for an "imitation game" as devised by Alan Turing.

Kevin Warwick co-organised the 2008 Loebner Prize at the University of Reading, which featured parallel-paired Turing tests.

Kevin Warwick himself participated in the tests as a hidden human.

In June 2014, Kevin Warwick helped Shah stage a series of Turing tests to mark the 60th anniversary of Alan Turing's death.

Kevin Warwick was criticised in the context of the 2014 Royal Society event, where he claimed that software program Eugene Goostman had passed the Turing test on the basis of its performance.

Additionally, Kevin Warwick was criticised by editor and entrepreneur Mike Masnick for exaggerating the significance of the Eugene Goostman program to the press.

Kevin Warwick was a member of the 2001 Higher Education Funding Council for England Research Assessment Exercise panel on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and was Deputy chairman for the same panel in 2008.

Kevin Warwick presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in December 2000, entitled Rise of the Robots.

Kevin Warwick claimed that Warwick "is not a spokesman for our subject" and "allowing him influence through the Christmas lectures is a danger to the public perception of science".

Kevin Warwick received the Future Health Technology Award in 2000, and was presented with the Institution of Engineering and Technology Achievement Medal in 2004.

In 2018 Kevin Warwick was inducted into the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences and in 2020 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Cybernetics Society.

Kevin Warwick is the recipient of ten honorary doctorates, these being from Aston University, Coventry University, Robert Gordon University, Bradford University, University of Bedfordshire, Portsmouth University, Kingston University, Ss.

Kevin Warwick has both his critics and endorsers, some of whom describe him as a "maverick".

Kevin Warwick is a regular presenter at the annual Careers Scotland Space School, University of Strathclyde.

Kevin Warwick appeared at the 2009 World Science Festival with Mary McDonnell, Nick Bostrom, Faith Salie and Hod Lipson.