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Congratulations to Peter Buneman on his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
A total of eleven past and present distinguished Edinburgh informaticians have been elected to this fellowship.
Of these, Peter Buneman, Robin Milner and Gordon Plotkin …

I am delighted to announce that Robin Milner is returning to the University of Edinburgh, part-time. He will be a SICSA Advanced Research Fellow and will hold the Chair of Computer Science.
Robin Milner graduated from Cambridge in 1958. After short …

Google has updated Google Earth with new images for Edinburgh Southside, dated 21 July 2008.
Open the title link with Google Earth to see the George Square masterplan superimposed on the Forum.

Peter Higgs was the first student of Christopher Longuet-Higgins, one of the forefathers of Informatics at Edinburgh.
The School is delighted to host Peter’s recent portrait by Ken Currie. The portrait will hang in the Forum for the next few months, u…

HEFCE has published preliminary results of the RAE.

These comprise tabulated overall quality profiles per unit of assessment (UoA) and per institution. Each quality profile presents the proportions, rounded to 5 per cent, of research activity in each…

TPR is an external, quinquennial review of our undergraduate teaching. We were reviewed on 24th and 25th November.
External review team: Gilles Dowek(Paris), Nigel Shadbolt(Soton), Martyn Thomas(Praxis), Mads Tofte(ITU Denmark)
The reviewers gave immed…

Best Building in Scotland
It’s official: we have the best building in Scotland — a building fit for informatics@edinburgh

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RIAS Andrew Doolan Award

A spokeswoman for Bennets Asso…

building.co.uk

We are used to developers renaming sites in the hope of squeezing the last ounce of cool – that is, lucre – from them. However, architect Bennetts Associates was slightly surprised when a similar request came from a group of staid E…

Opening of the Forum – Video

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond will open a world-leading centre for informatics research – encompassing computer science, artificial intelligence and cognitive science – at the University of Edinburgh on Wednesday, 3…

All Informatics staff, visitors and postgraduate students are invited to a small opening reception in the Forum on Wednesday 9th July, 18.00-20.00 BST.