Informatics at

the university of Edinburgh:

Informatics is the study of the structure, behaviour, and interactions of both natural and artificial computational systems.

Announcements

With effect from 1st August 1998 the University has established the Division of Informatics, to reflect and further its vision of Informatics, as a fundamental area of study, critical for the future development of science, engineering, and society.

Information

Look here for information on teaching and research that has not yet been moved to the new Informatics pages.

For new information, including information on appointments and vacancies please see the new Informatics at Edinburgh page.

Informatics Research
Informatics Teaching

Informatics Research

The University of Edinburgh is a leading centre for Informatics, with excellence across a broad spectrum of Units and Departments.

The Division of Informatics is an academic unit within the Faculty of Science and Engineering. It brings together the teaching and research previously carried out within the following units and departments:

including the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science

Human Communication Research Centre

including the Language Technology Group

Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute

The work of these units was rated excellent in both teaching (SHEFC Teaching Quality Assessment for Computer Studies) and research (5A in the 1996 HEFC Research Assessment Exercise). Together they returned 80.2 Category A research-active staff in the Computer Science Unit of Assessment. The University of Edinburgh thus has, by far, the largest concentration of excellence in this area within the UK.

A high degree of intellectual coherence and shared understanding, throughout Informatics at Edinburgh, led to a common vision of the future development of Informatics, as a fundamental area, critical, intellectually and socially, for the future development of science and engineering. Following a review of Informatics the University agreed to establish the Division of Informatics, to reflect and further develop this academic coherence.

Informatics across the University

The following Units also contribute to the strength and breadth of Edinburgh's teaching, research and infrastructure in Informatics:

Informatics Teaching

The Division offers a variety of courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. For further details please consult the old departmentmental pages: Department of Artificial Intelligence, Centre for Cognitive Scienceand Department of Computer Science.

Within these courses there is usually scope for a student to blend elements from across Informatics by combining modules previously offered by different Departments.