Peter Mowforth

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Dr. Peter Heward Mowforth
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Peter Mowforth, CEO Indez Ltd
Born (1953-10-27) 27 October 1953 (age 70) [1]
Sheffield, England [2]
NationalityBritish
Education University of Cambridge [2] University of Sheffield [2]
OccupationBusinessman
Known forFounding the First Robot Olympics [2] [3]
Title
Term
  • Turing Institute: 1983–1994
  • INDEZ Ltd: 1995–Present
SpouseGillian Mowforth
Parent(s)Cyril Mowforth, Olga Mowforth [7]

Peter Mowforth (born 27 October 1953) is a British businessman and chief executive (CEO) of Indez Ltd, [1] an online E-commerce agency based in Scotland. He was formerly a Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence expert and co-founded the Turing Institute. [4] He founded the First Robot Olympics. [3] [8] [9]

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Early life and education

Mowforth was born in Sheffield, England on 27 October 1953 to Cyril and Olga Mowforth. [7] He studied Neurophysiology and Physics in London and then moved to the University of Cambridge to study human psychophysics and neurophysiology. He gained a PhD from the University of Sheffield on the requirements and constraints for human stereo vision. He went to the University of Edinburgh's Machine Intelligence Research Unit in 1982 to investigate the role of induction in 2D vision systems. [2]

Career

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Peter Mowforth at the First Robot Olympics in 1990

Alongside the Professor Donald Michie and Tim Niblett of Edinburgh University's Machine Intelligence Research Unit, Mowforth founded the Turing Institute in 1983, [4] named in memory of Alan Turing who had worked alongside Michie at Bletchley Park.

In 1990, Mowforth founded the First Robot Olympics. [3] [8] [9] The event ran from 27 to 28 September and saw teams from 12 different countries competing. [5] [10] [11]

After the dissolution of the Turing Institute in 1994, Mowforth founded the online E-commerce business now known as Indez. [6]

In 2020, Mowforth co-founded the Scottish Government backed Institute of E-commerce, announced at an event organised by Dean Lockhart MSP. [5] [12]

Media Appearances

In 1990, Mowforth was interviewed by Lorraine Kelly on TV-am about the First Robot Olympics and the future of robotics. [8]

After the death of his parents he shared their letters sent during the Second World War with a local Historical Association, which led to significant media interest and television appearances, including on The One Show. [7] [13] The letters were adapted into an 8-part podcast series. [14]

He has written on business matters for The Herald. [15] [16]

Personal life

Mowforth lives in Milngavie, Glasgow, and is known to have purchased the property of Heatherbank House in 1995. [17] [18]

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  6. 1 2 "About Us". Indez. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  7. 1 2 3 "Good Evening Sweetheart: real-life romance of young couple separated by WWII". Historical Association. 2 July 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
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  16. ↑ "There's going to be a tsunami of change and very few people are getting their heads around it". The Herald (Glasgow). 4 November 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
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