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.