The School of Informatics is an academic unit of the

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, in

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, responsible for research, teaching, outreach and commercialisation in informatics. It was created in 1998 from the former Department of Artificial Intelligence, the Centre for Cognitive Science and the Department of Computer Science, along with the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI) and the Human Communication Research Centre. Research in the School of Informatics draws on multiple disciplines. The school is particularly known for research in the areas of

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

, computational linguistics, systems biology,

mathematical logic Mathematical logic is the study of formal logic within mathematics. Major subareas include model theory, proof theory, set theory, and recursion theory. Research in mathematical logic commonly addresses the mathematical properties of formal ...

and

theoretical computer science computer science (TCS) is a subset of general computer science and mathematics that focuses on mathematical aspects of computer science such as the theory of computation, lambda calculus, and type theory. It is difficult to circumscribe the ...

; but also contributes to many other areas of informatics. The School of Informatics was ranked 12th in the world by the

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2014. As of 2022, the school is ranked 1st in the UK according to ''CSRankings'', 1st in the UK in the latest 2021

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(REF) by research power, and 1st in the world for natural language processing (NLP).

Research

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The School of Informatics was awarded a 5*A in the UK HEFCE's 2001 RAE, the only computer science department in the country to achieve this highest possible rating. In the 2008 RAE, the School's "Quality Profile" was 35/50/15/0/0, which means that of the over 100

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(FTE) staff research outputs evaluated, 35% were found "world-leading (4*)" and 50% "internationally excellent (3*)". These figures can be interpreted in a number of ways, but place the School first by volume and tied for second (following Cambridge with 45/45/10/0/0) by percentage of research rated 3* or 4*. The School is generally considered world-leading, standing with the foremost U.S. institutes, particularly in areas such as artificial intelligence, natural language processing and machine translation, and theoretical computer science. The School has a number of research Institutes:

Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation: ANC

ANC investigates theoretical and empirical study of brain processes and artificial learning systems, drawing on neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, computational science, mathematics and statistics.

Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute: AIAI

Previously known as CISA (Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications), the Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute (AIAI) works on the foundations of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, and their application to real-world problems.

Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation: ILCC

ILCC performs research on all aspects of natural language processing, drawing on machine learning, statistical modeling, and computational, psychological, and linguistic theories of communication among humans and between humans and machines using text, speech and other modalities.

Institute for Computing Systems Architecture: ICSA

ICSA performs research on architecture and engineering of future computing systems: performance and scalability; innovative algorithms, architectures, compilers, languages and protocols.

Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour: IPAB

IPAB links computational action, perception, representation, transformation and generation processes to real or virtual worlds: statistical machine learning, computer vision, mobile and humanoid robotics, motor control, graphics and visualization.

Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science: LFCS

The LFCS Develops and applies foundational understanding of computation and communication: formal models, mathematical theories, and software tools.

Senior academic staff and alumni

Current

Senior academic staff include: *

Malcolm Atkinson Malcolm Phillip Atkinson (born 13 October 1943, Cornwall, UK) is a Professor of e-Science, in the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. He is known for his work in the areas of object-oriented databases, database systems, software eng ...

Alan Bundy Alan Richard Bundy is a professor at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh,http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bundy/ Professor Alan Bundy's website known for his contributions to automated reasoning, especially to proof planning ...

* Peter Buneman *

Christopher Bishop Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) is the Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. Bishop is a member of ...

* Rod Burstall , emeritus * Kousha Etessami * Wenfei Fan * Michael Fourman * Igor Goryanin * Dragan Gasevic *

Jane Hillston Jane Elizabeth Hillston (born 1963) is British professor of Quantitative research, Quantitative Scientific modelling, Modelling and Head of School in the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, School of Informatics, University of Edinbur ...

* Aggelos Kiayias * Elham Kashefi * Frank Keller * Mirella Lapata * Leonid Libkin * Ursula Martin * Johanna Moore * Michael O'Boyle *

Gordon Plotkin Gordon David Plotkin, (born 9 September 1946) is a theoretical computer scientist in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Plotkin is probably best known for his introduction of structural operational semantics (SOS) and h ...

Don Sannella Donald T. Sannella FRSE is professor of computer science in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Sannella graduated from Yale University, University of California, ...

Mark Steedman Mark Jerome Steedman, (born 18 September 1946) is a computational linguist and cognitive scientist. Biography Steedman graduated from the University of Sussex in 1968, with a B.Sc. in Experimental Psychology, and from the University of Edinbur ...

* Keith Stenning *

Amos Storkey Amos James Storkey is Professor of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Storkey studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge and obtained his doctorate from Imperial College, L ...

* Austin Tate *

Sethu Vijayakumar Sethu Vijayakumar FRSE (born 1970) is Professor of Robotics at the University of Edinburgh and a judge on the BBC2 show '' Robot Wars''. He is the Programme co-Director for Artificial Intelligence at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's National ...

Philip Wadler Philip Lee Wadler (born April 8, 1956) is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and type theory. He is the chair of Theoretical Computer Science at the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer ...

* Barbara Webb *

Bonnie Webber Bonnie Lynn Nash-Webber (born August 30, 1946) is a computational linguist. She is an honorary professor of intelligent systems in the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the University of Edinburgh. Education and car ...

Former

Donald Michie Donald Michie (; 11 November 1923 – 7 July 2007) was a British researcher in artificial intelligence. During World War II, Michie worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, contributing to the effort to solve " Tunny ...

, founder of

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

in the UK * Sidney Michaelson * Jon Oberlander

Notable alumni

Alumni of the school of informatics include: * Samson Abramsky , computer scientist at the

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* Pat Ambler, creator of

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* Joe Armstrong, creator of Erlang programming language and Open Telecom Platform (OTP) * Andrew Blake , computer scientist and former director of Microsoft Research, Cambridge and Alan Turing Institute in London * Bob Boyer , computer scientist, mathematician, philosopher at the

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* Alan W. Black, Professor at the

Language Technologies Institute The Language Technologies Institute (LTI) is a research institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, and focuses on the area of language technologies. The institute is home to 33 faculty with the primary scho ...

, Carnegie Mellon University *

Justine Cassell Justine M. Cassell (born March 19, 1960) is an American professor and researcher interested in human-human conversation, human-computer interaction, and storytelling. Since August 2010 she has been on the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon Human Compu ...

, Professor at the Human–Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University *

Luca Cardelli Luca Andrea Cardelli, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), is an Italian computer scientist who is a research professor at the University of Oxford in Oxford, UK. Cardelli is well known for his research in type theory and operational semantics. A ...

, computer scientist, Assistant Director of Microsoft Research, Cambridge * Ian Clarke, creator of

Freenet Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication. It uses a decentralized distributed data store to keep and deliver information, and has a suite of free software for publishing and communicating on the Web ...

* Rosemary Candlin, crystallographer and computer scientist at CERN * Margarita Chli, Leader of the Vision for Robotics Lab at

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* John Darlington, Emeritus Professor,

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* Bruce Davie, CTO of

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* Peter Dayan , director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany * Paul Dourish , Professor at the

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* Carla Gomes , computer scientist, Founding Director of the

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Institute for Computational Sustainability The Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS), founded in 2008 with support from an Expeditions in Computing grantLeslie Ann Goldberg , computer scientist at the

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* Jeremy Gibbons, Professor of computing,

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

* Andrew Gordon at Microsoft Research * Michael J. C. Gordon (1948–2017), computer scientist at the

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* Doug Gurr, global vice-president and head of Amazon UK * Philippa Gardner , Professor of

Theoretical Computer Science computer science (TCS) is a subset of general computer science and mathematics that focuses on mathematical aspects of computer science such as the theory of computation, lambda calculus, and type theory. It is difficult to circumscribe the ...

Richard Gregory Richard Langton Gregory (24 July 1923 – 17 May 2010) was a British psychologist and Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol. Life and career Richard Gregory was born in London. He was the son of Christopher Clive Langt ...

(1923–2010), cognitive scientist at the

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Pat Hayes Patrick John Hayes AAAI Fellow, FAAAI (born 21 August 1944) is a British computer scientist who lives and works in the United States. , he is a Senior Research Scientist at the IHMC, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Flori ...

, Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida *

Robert Harper (computer scientist) Robert William "Bob" Harper, Jr. (born ) is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who works in programming language research. Prior to his position at Carnegie Mellon, Harper was a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh ...

, Professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University * Matthew Hennessy , Co-creator of

Hennessy–Milner logic In computer science, Hennessy–Milner logic (HML) is a dynamic logic used to specify properties of a labeled transition system (LTS), a structure similar to an automaton. It was introduced in 1980 by Matthew Hennessy and Robin Milner in their pap ...

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, computer scientist at

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and winner of the

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. *

Xuedong Huang Xuedong D. Huang (born October 20, 1962) is a Chinese American computer scientist and technology executive who has made contributions to spoken language processing and AI Cognitive Services. He is Microsoft's Technical Fellow and Chief Technology ...

, CTO of

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Azure AI * Auke Ijspeert, Head of the Biorobotics Laboratory at EPFL *

Mark H. Johnson Mark Henry Johnson (born 1960) . . is a British cognitive neuroscientist who, since October 2017, has been Professor of Experimental Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Assoc ...

, cognitive neuroscientist and

Brain–computer interface A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a brain–machine interface (BMI) or smartbrain, is a direct communication pathway between the brain's electrical activity and an external device, most commonly a computer or robotic limb. B ...

researcher, Head of the Department of Psychology at the

* Mark Jerrum, Professor of Pure mathematics at the

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Gödel Prize The Gödel Prize is an annual prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science, given jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interes ...

Laureate * Philipp Koehn, Professor of

Machine Translation Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT (not to be confused with computer-aided translation, machine-aided human translation or interactive translation), is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates t ...

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

Robert Kowalski Robert Anthony Kowalski (born 15 May 1941) is an American-British logician and computer scientist, whose research is concerned with developing both human-oriented models of computing and computational models of human thinking. He has spent mo ...

, logician whose interpretation of the

Horn clause In mathematical logic and logic programming, a Horn clause is a logical formula of a particular rule-like form which gives it useful properties for use in logic programming, formal specification, and model theory. Horn clauses are named for the log ...

at Edinburgh became instrumental in the creation of

Prolog Prolog is a logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. Prolog has its roots in first-order logic, a formal logic, and unlike many other programming languages, Prolog is intended primarily ...

* Lǐ Wèi, mathematician and computer scientist, President of

Beihang University Beihang University, previously known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (), abbreviated as BUAA or Beihang ( zh, c=北航, p=), is a national public research university located in Beijing, China, specializing in engineering, t ...

* Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923–2004) , cognitive scientist *

Robin Milner Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner (13 January 1934 – 20 March 2010), known as Robin Milner or A. J. R. G. Milner, was a British computer scientist, and a Turing Award winner.

(1934–2010), computer scientist, winner of the

* Eugenio Moggi, first to explicitly link the

Monad Monad may refer to: Philosophy * Monad (philosophy), a term meaning "unit" **Monism, the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory ** Monad (Gnosticism), the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism * ''Great Monad'', a ...

of category theory to functional programming *

J Strother Moore J Strother Moore (his first name is the alphabetic character "J" – not an abbreviated "J.") is a computer scientist. He is a co-developer of the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm, Boyer–Moore majority vote algorithm, and the Boyer–M ...

, computer scientist at the

* Stephen Muggleton , Head of the Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory at

Alan Mycroft Alan Mycroft is a professor at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, where he is also director of studies for computer science. Education Mycroft read mathematics at Cambridge then moved ...

, Professor at the

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Timothy O'Shea Sir Timothy Michael Martin O'Shea (born 28 March 1949, Hamburg, Germany) is a British computer scientist and academic. He was the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 2002 to 2018. Biography O'Shea grew up in L ...

, Emeritus Professor and former principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh * Robin Popplestone (1938–2004), creator of COWSEL and POP-2 * Martha Palmer , creator of

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and

VerbNet The VerbNet project maps PropBank verb types to their corresponding Levin classes. It is a lexical resource that incorporates both semantic and syntactic information about its contents. VerbNet is part of thSemLinkproject in development at the Un ...

* Benjamin C. Pierce, Henry Salvatori Professor of computer science at the

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Lars Rasmussen (Software Developer) Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen is a Danish computer scientist, technology executive, and the co-founder of Google Maps.He was the director of engineering for Facebook in London.Hutcheon, StephenWhy I quit Google to join Facebook: Lars Rasmussen ''The ...

, Co-Founder of

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, Former Director of Engineering (CTO) of

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London. * John C. Reynolds (1935–2013) , inventor of

System F System F (also polymorphic lambda calculus or second-order lambda calculus) is a typed lambda calculus that introduces, to simply typed lambda calculus, a mechanism of universal quantification over types. System F formalizes parametric polymorph ...

and professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University * Davide Sangiorgi , Professor at the

University of Bologna The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continu ...

Nigel Shadbolt Sir Nigel Richard Shadbolt (born 9 April 1956) is Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. He is Chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded ...

, Chairman of the

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(ODI) and master of

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* Alistair Sinclair, Professor at

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Laureate *

Aaron Sloman Aaron Sloman is a philosopher and researcher on artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He held the Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, and before that ...

, philosopher, cognitive scientist at the

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* Chris Tofts, scientist at Hewlett-Packard *

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, professor at the

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Leslie Valiant Leslie Gabriel Valiant (born 28 March 1949) is a British American computer scientist and computational theorist. He was born to a chemical engineer father and a translator mother. He is currently the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Compu ...

, winner of the

in 2010 and Professor at

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* Lincoln Wallen, CTO of Improbable, former CTO of DreamWorks Animation *

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, Professor of

at the UNSW *

Hanna Wallach Hanna Wallach (born 1979) is a computational social scientist and partner research manager at Microsoft Research. Her work makes use of machine learning models to study the dynamics of social processes. Her current research focuses on issues of ...

at Microsoft Research * David H. D. Warren, creator of the Warren Abstract Machine *

Andrew Zisserman Andrew Zisserman (born 1957) is a British computer scientist and a professor at the University of Oxford, and a researcher in computer vision. As of 2014 he is affiliated with DeepMind. Education Zisserman received the Part III of the Mathema ...

, computer scientist at Google DeepMind and

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

Accommodation

The 2002 Cowgate fire destroyed a number of buildings, including 80 South Bridge, which housed around a quarter of the school and its renowned AI library. By January 2003, space was made available in the University's Appleton Tower as a replacement. Until June 2008, the School was dispersed over five sites: three in the George Square Campus: Appleton Tower, Buccleuch Place, Forrest Hill; and two at

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: James Clerk Maxwell Building, and the Darwin Building. In June and July 2008, the School's research moved into its new home, the

Informatics Forum The Informatics Forum is a major building on the Central Area campus of the University of Edinburgh. Completed in 2008, it houses the research institutes of the university's School of Informatics. Design The Forum is designed by Bennetts Asso ...

. The building, designed by

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, Reaich and Hall and Buro Happold, now houses some 500 researchers, including staff and graduate students. Construction began in October 2005, and the Forum's completion in July 2008 finally brought the School's researchers together, under one roof, some ten years after its inception. In August 2018, the School gained another research space in the form of the Bayes Centre, a purpose-built data science and Artificial Intelligence hub shared with multiple other data science and informatics groups, as well as the University's Maxwell Graduate Institute, encompassing the PhD research output of the mathematics departments at both Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University.

References

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Research

Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation: ANC

Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute: AIAI

Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation: ILCC

Institute for Computing Systems Architecture: ICSA

Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour: IPAB

Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science: LFCS

Senior academic staff and alumni

Current

Former

Notable alumni

Accommodation

See also

References