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February 2015

Previous speakers 

 

This section provides a complete list of the past speakers at this Prestige Lecture. You can also find links to related media for some of the more recent lectures.

 

Speakers 1999 - 2014

Year

Speaker

Title of lecture

Media

 2014

Dr Bernard Meyerson
IBM Fellow and Vice President for Innovation

 

Beyond silicon: Cognition and much, much more IET.tv
2013

Suranga Chandratillake
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of blinkx plc

 

What they didn't teach me: building a technology company and taking it to market Interview video
IET.tv
Slides (PDF)
Flyer (PDF)
2012

Professor Ray Dolan
Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry, and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, at UCL

 

From cryptanalysis to cognitive neuroscience - a hidden legacy of Alan Turing IET.tv
Slides (PDF)
Flyer (PDF)
2011

Professor Don Knuth
Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University

 

An evening with Don Knuth - All questions answered IET.tv London
IET.tv Manchester
Flyer (PDF)

2010

Professor Christopher Bishop 
Chief Research Scientist, Microsoft Research Cambridge

 

Embracing Uncertainty: The new machine intelligence

 

IET.tv
Slides (PDF)
Flyer (PDF)

 

2009

Professor Sir Michael Brady FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FIET, FInstP, FBCS
BP Professor of Information Engineering, University of Oxford

 

Information Engineering and its Future

 

IET.tv
Slides (PDF)
Flyer (PDF)

 

2008

Dr James Martin
Author, Business Leader and Social Entrepreneur

 

Target Earth

 

IET.tv
Flyer (PDF)

 

2007

Grady Booch
IBM

 

The Promise, the Limits and the Beauty of Software

 

IET.tv
Slides (PDF)
Flyer (PDF)

 

2006

Dr Chris Mairs
Director, Data Connection plc & Senior Vice President, Product Management & Business Development, MetaSwitch

 

Lifestyle Access for the Disabled – Adding Positive Drift to the Random Walk with Technology

 

IET.tv
Slides (PDF)
Flyer (PDF)

 

2005

Professor Fred Brooks Jr, FREng Dist. FBCS
Founding Kenan Professor of Computer Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design

 

IET.tv
Flyer (PDF)
 

 

2004

Professor Fred Piper
Director of Information Security Group, Professor of Mathematics, Royal Holoway, University of London

 

Cyberspace Security, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

 

IET.tv

 

2003

Dr Carol Kovac
General Manager, IBM Life Sciences

 

Computing in the Age of the Genome

 

IET.tv
Flyer (PDF)

 

2002

Professor Mark E Welland
Professor of Nanotechnology, University of Cambridge

 

Smaller, Faster, Better – but is it Nanotechnology

 


Flyer (PDF)

 

2001

Nick Donofrio
Senior Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing - IBM Corporation

 

Technology Innovation and the New Economy

 


Script (PDF)
Flyer (PDF)

 

2000

Professor Brian Randell
University of Newcastle

 

Facing up to Faults

 


Flyer (PDF)

 

1999

Professor Samson Abramsky
 

 

From Computation to Interaction – Towards a Science of Information

 


Slides (PDF)

 

 

See also