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Record year for Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh has strengthened its position as Scotland's leading research institution by earning a record £210 million to fund its research in 2006/07 – an increase of 50 percent on last year.

Informatics - the study of the structure, behaviour, and interactions of both natural and artificial computational systems. Encompassing Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Linguistics/ Communication and Artificial Intelligence,

As an emerging sector, Edinburgh has a number of successful indigenous and global informatics firms working across a range of applications from communications to hardware and software development.

University of Edinburgh School of Informatics

Recognised as the largest and leading department of Informatics in the UK and one of the top four centres for computing in the world. Under the RAE its research has been rated as ‘internationally excellent’ and its computer science department rated as the only 5*A department in the UK.  In 2006 the School successfully attracted £2.7 million from the Research Councils for e-Science.  

The School has strong formal links with Stanford University’s researchers looking at language technology.  

As well as generating knowledge, the School also works with new products and processes through its industrial collaborations and commercialisation activities headed up by Dr Colin Adams.

Heriot Watt University Department of Computer Sciences

The department offers a wide range of courses including MSc programmes in Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Web Technology and Software Engineering.  

The Department has a number of centres where research is undertaken including The Intelligent Systems Lab, which researches the synthesis of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques with control engineering methods to produce intelligent systems.  

Napier University School of Computing

The largest computing department in Scotland. It has an active research community pursuing research in applied computing that is organised in six groups: The Centre for Emergent Computing, Database and Object Systems Group, Distributed Systems and Mobile Agents Group, Human Computer Interaction, The International Teledemocracy Centre and The Social Informatics Group.