Professor Warwick is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University. His own areas of research interest include artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, control, robotics and cyborgs.
Previously Kevin was Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading between 1988 and 2014, including periods as Head of Department and Head of the School of Engineering and Information Sciences. He left school in 1970 and joined British Telecom as an Apprentice at the age of 16. He took his first degree at Aston University, followed by a PhD and a research post at Imperial College London. He subsequently held positions at Oxford University, Newcastle University and Warwick University before moving to Reading and then Coventry.
Kevin is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute. He is a Visiting Professor at the Czech Technical University, Prague, Strathclyde University and Reading University. In 2004 he was Senior Beckman Fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is on the advisory board of the Instinctive Computing Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and the Centre for Intermedia, Exeter University. In 2000 Kevin presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.
Kevin is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has also been awarded higher doctorates (DScs) by Imperial College and the Czech Academy of Sciences as well as receiving 7 Honorary Doctorates from UK Universities, including one from Coventry. He has been awarded the IEE Achievement Award, the IET Mountbatten Medal and the Ellison-Cliffe medal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Experience
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2016–presentEmeritus Professor, University of Reading
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2016–presentEmeritus Professor , Coventry University
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2014–2016Deputy vice-chancellor, Coventry University
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1988–2014Professor of Cybernetics, University of Reading
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1987–1988Senior lecturer, Warwick University
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1985–1987Research Lecturer, Oxford University
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1982–1985Lecturer, Newcastle University
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1982–1982Research assistant, Imperial College London
Education
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1994Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, DSc
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1993Imperial College London, DSc
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1982Imperial College London, PhD
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1979Aston University, BSc
Publications
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2016Turing's Imitation Game, Cambridge University Press
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2011Artificial Intelligence: The Basics, Routledge
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2002I, Cyborg, Century
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2000QI: The Quest for Intelligence, Piatkus
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1997March of the Machines, Century
Professional Memberships
- Fellow Institution of Engineering amd Technology
- Fellow City and Guilds of London Institute
- Chartered Engineer
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- ORCID
- Joined
