Professor Kevin Warwick

DATE: Thursday 8 July 2004
TIME: 3 – 4pm

Professor Kevin Warwick (a Professor of Cybernetics) has kindly agreed to give an hour to an hour and half of his time of on Thursday 8th July at 3pm to talk about the endless possibilities his research presents not only for those who secretly wish they were bionic, but also in the fields of health and disability research.

Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading and is involved in Readings Cybernetic Intelligence Research Group. He has devoted all of his academic life to the study of Robotics, Cybernetics and the controversial relationship between man and machine. He has published over 300 academic papers and a number of popular science books but is best known for the controversial research he has performed on himself.

In 1998, Kevin Warwick shocked the international scientific community and made world headlines, turning himself into the world's first cybernetic man by having a transponder surgically implanted into his arm. The aim of this controversial experiment was to determine whether information could be transmitted to and from an implant. The experiment was a success and prompted further research and another set of experiments on himself in 2002 where neurosurgeons created a link between Kevin's nervous system and a computer, which earned him a mention in the Guinness Book of Records.

This was followed by another world first when a similar transponder was implanted into his wife in order to explore the possibilities of direct nervous system to nervous system communication.

Check out more information about Kevin below.

Useful Weblinks

Kevin Warwick's website
http://www.kevinwarwick.org/

Professor Warwick's homepage in the Cybernetics Department at Reading University
http://www.cyber.rdg.ac.uk/people/K.Warwick.htm

An article about Kevin Warwick in Wired Magazine
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/warwick.html