Neil A. Forrester (born 3 January 1971, in

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, England) is a British research assistant in the field of developmental disorders and language acquisition at the

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and former reality television personality. He is best known to the general public as one of the cast members of the fourth season of the MTV

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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

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and performance art leanings. Forrester was co-founder of an online currency company called

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. He is also co-author of a number of technology patents. 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, 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.www.shardcore.org
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Neil Forrester at the

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Developmental Neurocognition Lab,

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