Interdisciplinary Institutes and Centres
Informatics has strong links to and interactions with a wide variety of
other disciplines. The School contributes to a number of
interdisciplinary research units, both within the University of
Edinburgh, and beyond.
Established to provide a focal grouping for expertise and
experience in the methodologies used in functional brain imaging. The
Centre undertakes and assits with imaging-based studies of brain
function, working with research groups at Edinburgh and elsewhere.
An "Institute without Walls" within the University of Edinburgh,
whose research and teaching interests span all branches of basic and
clinical neuroscience.
A multidisciplinary research group that undertakes
application-oriented speech research. Its main work is in the areas of
speech synthesis and speech recognition.
Research focuses on the temporal aspects of biological phenomena,
where we have breadth and depth of expertise. A key emphasis will be to
link diverse data and models tightly, through multiple iterations,
ranging from static ab initio models to highly-constrained, kinetic
models that cross multiple scales. This continuum of modelling
approaches reflects the realistic evolution of a systems-level approach
to any and all biological problems.
The Digital Curation Centre has been established to help solve the
extensive challenges of digital preservation and to provide research,
advice and support services to UK institutions.
An interdisciplinary research centre bringing together theories and
methods from several formal and experimental disciplines to understand
better how people communicate.
A collaboration of four of Scotland's top universities - Edinburgh,
Heriot Watt, Glasgow and Strathclyde, the Institute undertakes research
teaching and technology transfer in System Level Integration.
The Edinburgh Centre for Bioinformatics is a collaboration between
life scientists, computer scientists and other physical scientists to
stimulate and support collaborative interdisciplinary research in
bioinformatics. It is part of the
Scottish Bioinformatics Research Network.
eHealth is an emerging concept relating to the use of digital
ICTs (primarily the Internet) to facilitate the organisation &
delivery of health care and services. It encompasses applications for
providers and organisations (e.g. for storing, exchanging and using
clinical or administrative data, or aiding evidence-based practice) and
for citizens and patients (e.g. web-based health information,
education, virtual consulting), as well as research applications of
eHealth technologies.
Acts as a focus for the University of Edinburgh's work in high
performance computing. The Centre's task is to accelerate the effective
exploitation of high performance parallel computing systems throughout
academia, industry and commerce.
The Centre is concerned with the capture, modelling and
representation of 3D real world objects and domains. It can create and
deliver virtual environments to support teaching and research within
the University.
A multidisciplinary centre drawing on skills in statistics, law and
artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and Glasgow
Caledonian University.
An Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration between the
Universities of Southampton, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Sheffield and the
Open University. AKT aims to develop and extend a range of technologies
to provide integrated methods and services for the capture, modelling,
publishing, reuse and management of knowledge.
An Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration between the
Universities of Newcastle, City University London, Edinburgh, Lancaster
and York. DIRC tackles broad and fundamental problems of creating
dependable systems, taking an interdisciplinary approach that includes
sociologists and psychologists as well as computer scientists,
statisticians and so forth.
Established to lead, co-ordinate and support the UK programme to establish e-Science.
