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Index Pinkerton Lecture

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.[1]

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  1. 14 relations: David Caminer, David Cleevely, Hermann Hauser, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institution of Engineering and Technology, John Pinkerton (computer designer), Kevin Warwick, Maurice Wilkes, Robert Pepper, Robin Saxby, Steve Furber, Tim Berners-Lee, Tony Hey, Turing Talk.

  2. Institution of Engineering and Technology

David Caminer

David Caminer OBE (26 June 1915 – 19 June 2008) was a British computer engineer who helped to develop the world's first business computer, LEO (Lyons Electronic Office). Pinkerton Lecture and David Caminer are History of computing in the United Kingdom.

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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.

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Hermann Hauser

Hermann Maria Hauser, KBE, FRS, FREng, FInstP, CPhys (born 1948) is an Austrian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and inventor who is primarily associated with the Cambridge technology community in England.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.

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Institution of Engineering and Technology

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution.

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John Pinkerton (computer designer)

John Maurice McClean Pinkerton (2 August 1919 – 22 December 1997) was a pioneering British computer designer. Pinkerton Lecture and John Pinkerton (computer designer) are History of computing in the United Kingdom.

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Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick (born 9 February 1954) is an English engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University.

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Maurice Wilkes

Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers, and who invented microprogramming, a method for using stored-program logic to operate the control unit of a central processing unit's circuits. Pinkerton Lecture and Maurice Wilkes are History of computing in the United Kingdom.

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Robert Pepper

Robert M. Pepper (born February 10, 1948) is an American specialist in communications policy.

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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.

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Steve Furber

Stephen Byram Furber (born 21 March 1953) is a British computer scientist, mathematician and hardware engineer, and Emeritus ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. Pinkerton Lecture and Steve Furber are History of computing in the United Kingdom.

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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, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.

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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.

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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. Pinkerton Lecture and Turing Talk are British lecture series and institution of Engineering and Technology.

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See also

Institution of Engineering and Technology

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_Lecture