Editing Kevin Warwick (section)

==Biography==
Kevin Warwick was born in 1954 in [[Keresley]], Coventry, England,<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.localhistories.org/keresley.html|title = A History of Keresley, Coventry|date = 14 March 2021|access-date = 22 December 2019|archive-date = 2 August 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200802202504/http://www.localhistories.org/keresley.html|url-status = live}}</ref> and was raised in the nearby village of [[Ryton-on-Dunsmore]], [[Warwickshire]]. His family attended a Methodist church but soon he began doubting the existence of God.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ya1yGJOapMC&q=%22Methodist%22|title = I, Cyborg|isbn = 9780252072154|last1 = Warwick|first1 = Kevin|year = 2004| publisher=University of Illinois Press }}</ref> He attended [[Lawrence Sheriff School]] in [[Rugby, Warwickshire]], where he was a contemporary of actor [[Arthur Bostrom]]. He left school at the age of 16 to start an [[apprenticeship]] with [[British Telecom]]. In 1976, he was granted his [[Undergraduate degree#United Kingdom|first degree]] at [[Aston University]], followed by a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] degree and a research job at [[Imperial College London]].

He took up positions at [[Somerville College, Oxford|Somerville College]] in Oxford, [[Newcastle University]], the [[University of Warwick]], and the [[University of Reading]], before relocating to [[Coventry University]] in 2014.

Warwick is a [[Chartered Engineer (UK)|Chartered Engineer]] (CEng), a [[Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology]] (FIET) and a Fellow of the [[City and Guilds of London Institute]] (FCGI). He is Visiting Professor at the [[Czech Technical University in Prague]], the [[University of Strathclyde]], [[Bournemouth University]], and the University of Reading, and in 2004 he was Senior [[Beckman Fellow]] at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois]] in the United States. He is also on the Advisory Boards of the Instinctive Computing Laboratory at [[Carnegie Mellon University]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cmu.edu/vis/ |title=Ambient Intelligence Lab (AIL) – Ambient Intelligence |publisher=Cmu.edu |access-date=26 September 2009 |archive-date=10 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610010403/https://www.cmu.edu/vis/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the Centre for Intermedia at the [[University of Exeter]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/research/centres/intermedia/board/ |title=English – Centre for Intermedia – Advisory Board |work=[[University of Exeter]] College of Humanities |access-date=23 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727224911/https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/research/centres/intermedia/board/ |archive-date=27 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

By the age of 40, Warwick had been awarded a [[Doctor of Science|DSc]] degree by both Imperial College London and the [[Czech Academy of Sciences]] in Prague, for his research output in two entirely unrelated areas. He has received the [[Institution of Engineering and Technology|IET]] Achievement Medal, the [[IET Mountbatten Medal]], and in 2011 the [[Ellison–Cliffe Lecture|Ellison-Cliffe Medal]] from the [[Royal Society of Medicine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://conferences.theiet.org/pinkerton/speaker/index.cfm|title=The Pinkerton Lecture 2012|publisher=The Institution of Engineering and Technology|access-date=24 October 2012|archive-date=10 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910044457/http://conferences.theiet.org/pinkerton/speaker/index.cfm|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2000, Warwick presented the [[Royal Institution Christmas Lectures]], entitled ''The Rise of Robots''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140327175629/http://rigb.org/docs/christmas_lecturers_18252013_0.pdf Complete list of  CHRISTMAS LECTURES]. The Royal Institution</ref>