Noel Sharkey

Noel Sharkey is a professor in the Department of Computer Scienceat the University of Sheffield, and EPSRC Senior Media Fellow (2004-2007). He has held a number of research and teaching positions in the UK (Essex, Exeter, Sheffield) and the USA (Yale, Stanford, Berkeley). Noel has moved freely across academic disciplines, lecturing in departments of engineering, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, artificial intelligence and computer science. He holds a Doctorate in Experimental Psychology, is a chartered electrical engineer, a chartered information engineer. He has published over a hundred academic articles and books as well as articles and web chats for BBC web pages and regular magazine articles. In addition to editing several journal special issues on modern robotics, Noel is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Connection Science and an editor of both Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence Review.

Noel appears regularly on TV (over 250 appearances in the last 7 years) and is interviewed regularly on radio, in magazines and newspapers (he has had reports and interviews in all of the major UK broadsheets in the last year). He has been chief judge for every series of Robot Wars throughout the world as well as the "techspert" for 4 series of TechnoGames.