Pinkerton Lecture Explained

The Pinkerton lecture series is held by the Institution of Engineering and Technology 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
• 2001 David Caminer^[1]
• 2002 David Cleevely
• 2004 Hermann Hauser^[2]
• 2005 Subhash Bhatnagar
• 2006 Tony Hey^[3]
• 2007 Tim Berners-Lee^[4]
• 2008 Alex Balfour^[5]
• 2009 John Carey^[6]
• 2010 Steve Furber^[7]
• 2011 Mike Short^[8]
• 2012 Kevin Warwick^[9]
• 2013 Robin Saxby^[10]
• 2014 Jim Morrish^[11]
• 2015 Robert Pepper^[12]

See also

• Turing Talk

Notes and References

1. is2.lse.ac.uk/leo/archive/caminer2.pdf
2. Web site: IEEE Xplore - Calendar . . 2011-09-27 . 2012-09-14.
3. Web site: Pinkerton Lecture 2006 . Tv.theiet.org . 2006-06-13 . 2012-09-14.
4. Web site: Talks by Tim Berners-Lee . W3.org . 2012-09-14.
5. Web site: Alex Balfour . Social Media and the Olympics: Change, Social Media and London 2012 . Slideshare.net . 2012-09-14.
6. Web site: IT - is it on the money? - John Carey - 2009 Pinkerton Lecture . Tv.theiet.org . 2009-11-25 . 2012-09-14.
7. Web site: The Pinkerton Lecture:The relentless march of the microchip . Tv.thiet.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20110828100841/https://tv.theiet.org/technology/infopro/9982.cfm . 28 August 2011 . dead.
8. Web site: The Pinkerton lecture - IET Conferences . Conferences.theiet.org . 2012-09-14.
9. Web site: The Pinkerton lecture - IET Conferences . https://archive.today/20130113070923/http://www.theiet.org/pinkerton . dead . January 13, 2013 . Theiet.org . 2012-09-14 .
10. Web site: The IET Pinkerton Lecture 2013 . www.theiet.in . 22 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131104022116/http://www.theiet.in/events/pinkerton.html . 4 November 2013 . dead.
11. Web site: The IET Pinkerton Lecture 2014 . events.theiet.in . 22 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141108160816/http://events.theiet.in/Pinkerton2014/ . 8 November 2014 . dead.
12. Web site: The IET Pinkerton Lecture 2015 . events.theiet.in . 22 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151122030330/http://events.theiet.in/Pinkerton2015/ . 22 November 2015 . dead.