13 Facts About Nigel Shadbolt

Nigel Shadbolt is Chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Tim Berners-Lee.

Nigel Shadbolt is a Visiting Professor in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton.

Nigel Shadbolt's research focuses on understanding how intelligent behaviour is embodied and emerges in humans, machines and, most recently, on the Web, and has made contributions to the fields of Psychology, Cognitive science, Computational neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Computer science and the emerging field of Web science.

Nigel Shadbolt obtained an undergraduate degree in philosophy and psychology at Newcastle University.

Nigel Shadbolt's thesis resulted in a framework for understanding how human dialogue is organised and was supervised by Barry Richards and Henry S Thompson.

Nigel Shadbolt's research has been in Artificial Intelligence since the late 1970s working on a broad range of topics; from natural language understanding and robotics through to expert systems, computational neuroscience, memory through to the semantic web and linked data.

Nigel Shadbolt writes on the wider implications of his research.

In 1983, Nigel Shadbolt moved to the University of Nottingham and joined the Department of Psychology.

In 2006 Nigel Shadbolt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Nigel Shadbolt is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and was its President in its 50th jubilee year.

From 2007 to 2011 Nigel Shadbolt was Deputy Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, from 2011 to 2014 he was Head of the Web and Internet Science Group, the first research group dedicated to the study of Web science and Internet science, within ECS, comprising 140 staff, researchers and PhD students.

Nigel Shadbolt was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4 in April 2015.

Nigel Shadbolt is married to Bev Saunders, a designer, and has two children.