Peter Cochrane
www.cochrane.org.uk
www.conceptlabs.net

Peter Cochrane joined BT Laboratories in 1973 and has worked on a wide range of technologies and systems. In 1993 he was appointed as the Head of Research, and in 1999 he became BT's Chief Technologist. In November 2000 Peter retired from BT to join his own startup company - ConceptLabs - which he founded with a group out of Apple Computers in 1998 at Campbell CA, in Silicon Valley.

A graduate of Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University) and Essex University. He has been a visiting professor to UCL, Essex, Southampton and Kent. He was the Collier Chair for The Public Understanding of Science & Technology at The University of Bristol and is a Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He has published and lectured widely on technology and the implications of IT.

He led a team that received the Queen's Award for Innovation & Export in 1990; the Martlesham Medal for contributions to fibre optic technology in 1994; the IEE Electronics Division Premium in 1986; Computing and control Premium in 1994 and the IERE Benefactors Prize in 1994; the James Clerk Maxwell Memorial Medal in 1995; IBTE Best Paper Prize and Honorary Doctorates from Essex, Robert Gordon, Stafford, and Nottingham Trent Universities and was awarded an OBE in 1999 for his contribution to international communications. Peter was awarded an IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000 and The City & Guilds Prince Philip Medal in 2001.

Peter's new book, based on his columns for silicon.com, is now for sale:
Amazon UK.

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