报告内容：

Our future will be as cyborgs – part human, part technology. The presenter’s own experiments will be used to show how implant and electrode technology can be employed to create cyborgs: biological brains for robots, to enable human enhancement and to diminish the effects of neural illnesses. In all cases the end result is to increase the abilities of the recipients. An indication is given of a number of areas in which such technology has already had a profound effect, a key element being the need for a clear interface linking a biological brain directly with computer technology.

报告人简介：

Kevin Warwick is Emeritus Professor at Reading and Coventry Universities. Prior to that he was Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University, England. His main research areas are artificial intelligence, biomedical systems, robotics and cyborgs. Due to his research as a self-experimenter he is frequently referred to as the world’s first Cyborg. Kevin was born in Coventry, UK and left school to join British Telecom.  He took his first degree at Aston University, followed by a PhD and research post at Imperial College London.  He held positions at Oxford, Newcastle, Warwick and Reading Universities before joining Coventry.

Kevin is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IET who has published over 600 research papers. His experiments into implant technology led to him being featured as the cover story on the US magazine, ‘Wired’. He achieved the world’s first direct electronic communication between two human nervous systems, the basis for thought communication. Another project extended human sensory input to include ultrasonics. He also linked his nervous system with the internet in order to control a robot hand directly from his neural signals, across the Atlantic Ocean.

He has been awarded higher doctorates (DSc) by Imperial College and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. He has also been awarded 9 Honorary Doctorates. He received The IEE Senior Achievement Medal, the IET Mountbatten Medal and the Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine.  In 2000 Kevin presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and in 2017 he presented the Paul B. Baltes Lecture at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Kevin Warwick教授是英国瑞丁大学（Reading University）以及考文垂大学（Coventry University）的荣誉教授。在此之前他是考文垂大学的常务副校长（科研）。他的主要研究领域是人工智能、生物医学系统、机器人和生化电子人。由于他在自己的研究中将自己作为实验对象，所以他经常被誉为世界上第一位生化电子人。Warwick教授出生在英国考文垂，毕业后加入了英国电信。他在英国阿斯顿大学（Aston University）取得第一个学历，随后在伦敦帝国理工学院（Imperial College London）获得了博士学位并成为博士后。在加入考文垂大学前，他分别在牛津大学（Oxford University）、纽卡斯尔大学（Newcastle University）和瑞丁大学工作。

Warwick教授是IET特许工程师，IET会士，出版研究文章超过600多篇。他进行的植入技术的实验使得他荣登美国著名“连线”（Wired）杂志封面人物。他实现了世界上第一例在两个人类神经系统之间建立纯粹的电子通信。他的另外一个项目扩展了人类感官输入，包括超声波。此外，他还将他的神经系统与互联网链接，以便直接用他的神经信号跨越大西洋来控制一只机器人手臂。

他被帝国理工学院、布拉格捷克科学院授予高级理学博士学位（higher doctorates (DSc)）。他还获得了9个荣誉博士学位。他被授予IEE高级成就奖，IET Mountbatten奖章，以及皇家医学学会的Ellison-Cliffe奖章。2000年，Warwick教授在英国皇家研究院的圣诞讲座上进行演讲，并于2017年在柏林勃兰登堡科学与人文学院的保罗·B·贝尔特讲座上进行演讲。

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