Informatics@Edinburgh

Informatics is the study of how natural and artificial systems store, process and communicate information. Research in informatics promises to take information technology to a new level, and to place information at the heart of 21st century science, technology and society.

The University has adopted our vision of the future of Informatics, as a discipline central to a new enlightenment in scholarship and learning, and critical to the future development of science, technology and society.

The School provides a fertile environment for a wide range of studies focussed on understanding computation in both artificial and natural systems. The research draws on concepts from computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology and biology.

Informatics is one of seven schools in the College of Science and Engineering, at The University of Edinburgh. It was the only department in the UK awarded the top 5*A rating in Computer Science in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. With 87.1 research active staff submitted for assessment, we are also the UK's biggest research group in this area. We received a top excellent rating in the most recent (1994) SHEFC Teaching Quality Assessment exercise.