60 Years of AI at Edinburgh

In case its useful I have a blog post that has some info on the various AI groups at Edinburgh from 1963 onwards. We put this together with input from Alan Bundy, Jim Howe's History article and other sources to try to make sure we had the dates of the various groups correct.

https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/2019/10/30/artificial-intelligence-and-its-applications-institute/

It includes a link to Jim Howe's own History of AI at Edinburgh...
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/about/AIhistory.html

and an article in EDIT magazine on the 50th anniversary...
https://www.ed.ac.uk/edit-magazine/supplements/history-makers-informatics

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I was reminded we have a lot of material, imagery and video on early AI at Edinburgh. Some of this also may be useful... 

Donald Michie speaking in 2002 at an event at the British Museum on recollections on early AI at Edinburgh...
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/events/ccs2002/

Donald provided a PDF of his speaker notes and an MPEG4 video for his talk at this event...
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/events/ccs2002/CCS-early-british-ai-dmichie.pdf
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/events/ccs2002/2002-10-11-michie.mp4

I gave a talk there on early AI applications and commercial work at Edinburgh, but later extended that to include more imagery and specially taken photos of the various homes for AI groups at Edinburgh in Hope Park Square, Forest Hill, Buccleuch Place, South Bridge, Appleton Tower and the Forum.  There is a PowerPoint of that...
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/events/edcomphistory2007/2007-06-29%20AI%20Homes%20Talk.ppt

We even have some things going right back to the Lighthill debate in 1973 and the Edinburgh Computer History Reunion in 2007 with resources available via...
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/events.html
https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/jamboree/2007/

For the Freddy and Freddy II robot project and videos they are linked at...
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/freddy/