John Smeaton Leeds Grammar School, which lead singer Ricky Wilson attended) by the indie rock band Kaiser Chiefs, who are natives of Leeds. A Grammar school in Plymouth, called Devonport High School for Boys, named one of their houses after him, because of <nowiki>"Smeaton's Tower"</nowiki> lighthouse in Plymouth. John Smeaton John Smeaton (8 June 1724 – 28 October 1792) was a British civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent physicist. Smeaton was the first self-proclaimed "civil engineer", and is often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".
Alan Smeaton Alan Smeaton Professor Alan F. Smeaton MRIA is a researcher and academic at Dublin City University. Among his accomplishments are founding TRECVid, the Centre for Digital Video Processing, and being a winner of the University President's Research Award in Science and Engineering in 2002 and the DCU Educational Trust Leadership Award in 2009. Smeaton is a founding director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University (2013-2019). Prior to that he was a Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, (2008-2013). As of 2013, Smeaton also serves on the editorial boards for