Girton Labs

Lyndsay Williams

Lyndsay Williams, the founder and Managing Director of Girton Labs Ltd., is an electronics engineer.  Her past employers include Psion, the BT Labs at Martlesham, where she was a Senior Research Fellow), and Microsoft Research in Cambridge, where she was a Researcher.

Williams graduated from the University of Salford in the UK, in 1980, with an Honours degree in BioMedical Electronics.  At BT Labs, she invented SmartQuill, a mobile phone with sensors for motion control and human sensing.  Later, at Microsoft, Lyndsay invented SenseCam, a sensing camera to help people with Alzheimer's and other memory-loss conditions maintain as much daily recall as possible.  Listen to Peter Gabriel, Susan Blackmore, Gordon Bell, Martin Conway and Emma Berry and Lyndsay Williams talking about Memory Capture on the BBC4 Today program in September 2008 by clicking on this link (4.5MB MP3).

Recently, Williams has been designing sensors for mobile phones and currently a new type of sensing computer embedded in printed paper, whose first prototype is Ixp-Note.

Lyndsay also writes a blog.  You can find her CV here, and some PowerPoint slides from August 2009 here.

Lyndsay's Patents and Publications

Lyndsay is a named inventor on a number of patents.  Click on these links to search for them: US Patents and EU Patents.

She is also the author or co-author in many publications.  Follow this link to list a number of them.