Each year the University hosts a series of public inaugural lectures given by Professors or Chairs newly appointed by the University. Inaugural lectures by newly appointed chairs from the School of Informatics are listed on this page. The lecturer describes the significance of his or her research and its implications for the wider discipline. They also outline their future research directions. Inaugural lectures are designed to be accessible to interested members of the public. Link to the list of all the University of Edinburgh Inaugural Lectures Link to the list of the College of Science and Engineering Inaugural Lectures The programme of the Informatics Inaugural Lectures 2010-2016 Expand all Collapse all 2016 Prof. Perdita Stevens - What has mathematics to do with software engineering? Watch the recording (rehearsal) 2014 Prof. Michael O'Boyle - Auto-parallelisation Reloaded Watch the recording Prof. Frank Keller - How Humans (and Machines) Integrate Language and Vision Watch the recording 2013 Prof. J Douglas Armstrong - Systems Neuroscience Watch the recording Prof. Philipp Koehn - Open Problems in Machine Translation Watch the recording 2012 Prof. D K Arvind - Speckled Computing Watch the recording Prof. Sethu Vijayakumar - Robots that Learn: Old Dreams, New Tools Watch the recording Prof. Alex Simpson - The Intertwined Foundations of Mathematics and Computer Science Watch the recording Prof. Stephen Gilmore - Is Informatics an Indiscrete Science? Watch the recording 2011 Prof. Leonid Libkin - Separating Possible from Impossible, Or Why Practical Computing Needs Theory Watch the recording Prof. Henry S. Thompson - Understanding the Web, How Theory and Practice Diverge Watch the recording Prof. Alex Lascarides - Discourse Coherence Watch the recording Prof. Barbara Webb - Robotic Perspectives on Biological Systems Watch the recording 2010 Prof. David Robertson - Programming the Social Computer Watch the recording Prof. Vincent Danos - Information Carriers in Biomolecular Networks Watch the recording This article was published on 2024-03-18
