Jeff has been involved in the games industry since 1981 and provides the AI core for the bulk of the engines. His background of 17 years lecturing in Computer Science at Kings College, London, and record of entering 15 Computer World Championships in Chess and Shogi (in 2 years ranking world #3), provides a solid basis for creating game engine AI. Added to this Jeff also coordinates all of AI Factory's activities and oversees all project work.

He still publishes, referees and presents papers in academia, but is now a full time committed member of the games industry.

Dan provides core expertise in 3D programming, based on DirectX, OpenGL and shader programming. With mobile games becoming increasingly important, AI Factory also depends on Dan to drive work in this area, so he heads up both 3D and mobile development.

His strong general interest in all gaming, and his depth of experience with video games, provides a valuable resource for driving our development. This allows him to also make substantial contributions in areas of interface style and game playability, having insight into the mind set of the computer gamer.

Kirstie heads up all 2D artwork, 3D modelling and web design at AI Factory. Her in-depth knowledge of 3D Studio Max, Lightwave and other packages provide the experience needed to drive all our graphics. With 16 years in this field she has many game titles to her CV, and has since added a further 22 with new titles for AI Factory's repertoire.

Game aesthetics are critically important, so we take this as seriously as our AI. It is Kirstie's expertise that creates the lavish environments of our games, and it is her job to ensure that all our graphics are better than the competition!

Tony first began creating games for home computers, such as the Sinclair Spectrum, back in the mid 1980's. He now has over twenty years of experience in designing and programming games across many varied platforms. In 1990 Tony helped found Revolution Software which went on to produce a number of cult classic adventure games, such as Beneath a Steel Sky and the Broken Sword series. In 2002 he undertook the insane task of porting double-CD game Broken Sword to the Game Boy Advance, and managed it with 6 bytes to spare.

Dr Michael Reiss is the author of the world's best selling Go software. His program Go++ has placed in the top three in just about every computer-go tournament since 1987. Currently his program is ranked number one in the world having won the world championships three times in recent years.

His Go engine has been incorporated in many PC implementations and also Playstation 2, Playstation 1, mobile networked version, Sega Saturn, Palm, Symbian, PocketPC, Mac and web-based servers.

Andrew has been authoring Computer Bridge software for over 15 years, and has maintained his status as an independent developer, providing the engines for the highly successful "Oxford Bridge" and AI Factory's "Omar Sharif Bridge" products.

He has competed in World Computer Olympiad events since the late 1980s, with some marked success, coming joint top among 7 computer Bridge programs, just behind the human World Champion in the same event.

Andrew was a co-founder and has therefore been involved in the company since the inception, and contributed much work on early titles. He moved on in November 2004 and now provides external support as needs arise and adds extra width to AI Factory's technical knowledge. He has a diverse background in physics, image processing, internet programming, mobile/PDA programming, and C++ since 1984. He has many PC and PDA game titles to his name, both within AI Factory and previous positions in the games industry.

His speciality in games is Bridge, where he is an active player and was responsible for the bulk of the coding of "Omar Sharif Bridge II".

Reijer is a professor at the School of Computer Science of the Tokyo University of Technology, specialised in Cognitive Science and Game Programming. He is a former European Shogi Champion and the author of the shogi program SPEAR, developed over the last 10 years. In this time he has also been connected with the development of AI Factory's Shogi engine Shotest, as these two programs have been developed in parallel. He has also contributed to our newsletters. Reijer is now directly contributing to our latest Shogi program, including the creation of an on-line tutorial system for teaching Shogi.

Hiroshi Yamashita has been working in Computer Shogi and Go for several years. His Shogi program has impressively 3 times been the World Computer Shogi Champion, and has also been a Computer Olympiad Gold medallist. He has his Shogi product on the market under the name AI Shogi and is now also involved with AI Factory with his Aya Go program. Shogi is a difficult game, harder than Chess, but Go is much harder still. Aya is based on the difficult premise of solving Go using search trees.