Artificial Intelligence work at Edinburgh can trace its origins to a
research group established in 1963 by Donald Michie, who had
been a member of the code-breaking group that included Alan Turing at
Bletchley Park. Over the years there have been a number of different
organisational structures and department names for the AI groups (see
History of AI@Edinburgh).
The Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute was created by the
University of Edinburgh in 1983 to work alongside its academic
Department of Artificial Intelligence to encourage the development and
take-up of artificial intelligence methods. Over the years it has
created many innovative applications of AI with
a wide range of clients, government agencies and collaborators. In
2001 it became part of the Centre for Intelligent Systems and their
Applications (CISA) within the School of Informatics at the University
of Edinburgh continuing to lead its AI applications-orientated work. On
1st December 2019, the name of the Centre was changed to the
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute (AIAI) to reflect
both the continuing research and applications aspects of the work.
AIAI continues to make available the resources and educational
materials from its previous work. Applied AI work continues to
be performed by staff, students and collaborators across the School of
Informatics.
A number of other departments and schools at the University of
Edinburgh as well as other research institutes in the School of
Informatics work on a range of topics within the field of Artificial
Intelligence.
The School of Informatics
at the University of Edinburgh
offers a wide range of
undergraduate
and postgraduate
degrees in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computational
Linguistics, Computer Science, Software Engineering and Robotics.
