Developer William Latham has joined Goldsmiths University as professor of computer games.

Latham takes Goldsmiths post

Latham joins the university’s department of computing this month where he will work on developing a Masters in Computer Gaming and Entertainment, a course that may start as early as September for the 07/08 academic year.

At Goldsmiths he will also be working on the Mutator2 Procedural Modelling Project.

Previously, Latham worked as a research fellow at IBM from 1987 to 1993 and then spent 10 years in games development at Computer Artworks which created movie spin-off The Thing.

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