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The University of Edinburgh is an internationally leading centre for Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Computer Science. Our work has been rated excellent in both teaching (SHEFC Teaching Quality Assessment for Computer Studies) and research.
Research is carried out within research institutes:
Centre for Intelligent Systems and
Their Applications
Institute for Adaptive and Neural
Computation
Institute
for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
Institute for Computing Systems
Architecture
Institute
of Perception, Action and Behaviour
e-Science Institute
Laboratory for Foundations of
Computer Science
Informatics Life-Sciences Institute
Each institute is led by an academic Director, and contains a number of closely related research groups. Institutes act as 'villages' within the wider informatics community. Academic staff are appointed to the School, and choose to belong to one or more institutes. Operationally, each institute manages a portfolio of funding and specialist facilities (data, software, equipment, etc.), and creates and nurtures a community of research staff and students.
In the 2001 HEFC Research Assessment Exercise, Informatics was assessed primarily under UoA 25 "Computer Science", in which we achieved a 5* A, with 87.1 FTE category A staff, this includes 2 FTE from EPCC and 2 from EdVec. In UoA 25, Edinburgh has the only 5*A in the UK, the only 5* in Scotland, and 30% of the 5* Cat A staff in the UK.
In addition, 1.5 FTE from Informatics were assesed in Linguistics and another 1.5 FTE in Psychology (both rated 5 at Edinburgh), so the total FTE Cat A staff from the School of Informatics in 5/5* units is 86.1.
The University of Edinburgh thus has, by far, the largest concentration of excellence in this area within the UK.
Edinburgh has submitted 115 Category A staff (111.25 FTE).
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