Neil Forrester

{{Short description|British research assistant and reality television personality}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Neil Forrester

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1971|1|3}}

| birth_place = Keynsham, England, UK

| occupation = Artist, Musician, Actor

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Neil A. Forrester (born 3 January 1971, in Keynsham, England) is a British research assistant in the field of developmental disorders and language acquisition at the University of London and former reality television personality.{{Cite web |url=http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/research/DNL/personalpages/neil.html |title=University of London's Personal Page for Neil Forrester at the Developmental Neurocognition Lab |access-date=21 June 2006 |archive-date=7 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060907120504/http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/research/DNL/personalpages/neil.html |url-status=dead }} He is best known to the general public as one of the cast members of the fourth season of the MTV reality television series The Real World: London, which aired in 1995. At that time he was the lead vocalist of an underground, alternative-orientated band called Unilever, which had punk and performance art leanings.

Forrester was co-founder of an online currency company called Beenz.com.[https://archive.today/20120710102707/http://computerworld.com/industrytopics/financial/story/0,10801,49034,00.html "What It's Like to Work at Beenz.com Inc."; 28 August 2000] He is also co-author of a number of technology patents.[https://patents.google.com/patent/US20010021915 Compensation driven network based exchange system and method][https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060010035 Personal document creation][https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050281276 Data analysis and flow control system]

In his current line of work he has written a variety of academic papers with such titles as "Learning the Arabic plural: the case for minority default mappings in connectionist networks." He has a website at neilforrester.com,[http://www.neilforrester.com/ Neil Forrester's website, www.neilforrester.com] but it now depicts a message simply stating "There is no neilforrester.com". It offers a link to the website shardcore.org, which currently contains an extensive collection of artwork developed under his alter ego, Shardcore.[http://www.shardcore.org/ www.shardcore.org]