Sam Chapman

“After many years, drinking to excess, music, travel, being gassed by the Mafia, arrested for border transgressions etc. I ended up in Sheffield researching a unique blend of computer graphics and forensic pathology. Although fun for a while making 3D reconstructions of people being clobbered to death and home office pathologists cutting up bodies on my behalf it somehow began to grate.

After Jack Straw asked me to help prosecute people with dubious evidence I promptly quit to go and write console games for Gremlin/Infogrames/Atari. After three years and a series of crazy bonuses, I met a man in a pub which lead to me oddly ending up back at Sheffield University were I wound up working on and coordinating a variety of DTi/TSB, EPSRC, AHRC, JISC and EU funded projects across the world creating new state of the art technologies focusing on artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, web intelligence, advanced visualisations, the semantic web and a host of other stuff.

After many years (and a lot of world travel), and getting married in Vegas along the way, I had two children and left academia for a real challenge. I formed a company for which I am now the executive director. This commercialises some of my prior patented work, selling intelligence solutions and other such high tech gubbins to various industries (mostly aerospace).

If anyone wishes to know more details, see photo’s or get in touch contact details can be found via google.”