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[13/12/2024] Informatics researchers help develop an AI image tool that will look for climate change clues
[02/12/2024] Jane Hillston appointed to the Turing’s Board of Trustees
[15/11/2024] Next year’s EIE will include the Tech Tour’s Growth Deeptech event
[01/11/2024] Our MSc in Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust now fully certified by the National Cyber Security Centre
[31/10/2024] Edinburgh AI history highlighted at the History of AI in Europe workshop
[27/10/2024] 2024 BCS Lovelace Medal for Aggelos Kiayias
[24/10/2024] Ram Ramamoorthy to lead new Centre for AI for Assistive Autonomy
[16/10/2024] Informatics researcher to play a role in a newly established Micro-Tex Hub
[08/10/2024] Nobel Prize in Physics for the ‘godfather of AI’, Geoffrey Hinton
[08/10/2024] Researchers Journey: Sreedurga Gogulapati
[30/09/2024] Informatics student among Machine Learning and Systems Rising Stars
[23/09/2024] Michael Mistry among five new fellows of the Bayes Innovation Fellows programme
[13/09/2024] The School of Informatics will welcome visitors on 29th September for Doors Open Day
[09/09/2024] Informatics students join The Alan Turing Enrichment Scheme 2024
[20/08/2024] Sethu Vijayakumar instrumental in shaping a partnership with Digital University Kerala
[09/08/2024] AI fintech startup from Informatics raises £11 million in Series A investment
[07/08/2024] Informatics colleagues awarded at the annual SICSA PhD Conference
[01/08/2024] EUFS Speeds to the Finish Line at Silverstone
[31/07/2024] Academics from Quantum Software Lab involved in two out of five new Quantum Hubs
[18/07/2024] Informatics researchers involved in abrdn-led project to develop an AI investment tool
[04/07/2024] AI-augmented artworks were presented at the 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art
[24/06/2024] Informatics graduate awarded the Growth Innovation Award
[21/06/2024] Three new Chancellor’s Fellows will join Informatics
[20/06/2024] Informatics researchers will investigate high school students’ use of AI in school to inform lessons of the future
[08/05/2024] Alex Taylor receives the BRAID fellowship
[29/04/2024] Quantum Week Scotland attracts over 500 enthusiasts
[26/04/2024] Informatics student named the Undergraduate of the Year
[23/04/2024] Jane Hillston receives MBE at Buckingham Palace
[18/04/2024] Informatics awarded the Athena Swan Silver Award
[16/04/2024] Informatics students showcase assistive robotics at SDP Course Trade Fair
[10/04/2022] Elham Kashefi elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh
[08/04/2024] Ross J. Anderson 1956-2024
[13/03/2024] Bees use antennae to decode hive mates’ dances
[11/03/2024] Quantum Software Lab to host a week-long festival for Quantum Technologies
[08/03/2024] Extraordinary women who inspire Edinburgh Informatics
[12/02/2024] Informatics student inspired by tragedy begins robot trial
[11/02/2024] Women and Girls in Informatics
[06/02/2024] Researchers in informatics involved in four out of nine AI hubs announced today
[23/01/2024] The Princess Royal visits the School of Informatics
[16/01/2024] Long-serving Informatics staff congratulated with awards from Principal
[14/01/2024] Informatics academics teach mathematical sciences in Africa
[08/01/2024] Ram Ramamoorthy and colleagues explore specifying for trustworthiness
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[15/12/2023] AI study reveals individuality of tongue’s surface
[13/12/2023] Professor Jane Hillston appointed to be the College’s Dean of Research Culture and REF
[12/12/2023] Alexandre Colle won a Main Edge Award of £80,000 for his company Konpanion
[09/11/2023] School of Informatics and the University to lead new era of generative AI
[07/11/2023] Jane Hillston awarded BCS Lovelace Medal
[02/11/2023] UKRI announces funding for three new CDTs in artificial intelligence led, or co-led by the School of Informatics
[27/10/2023] Kia Nazarpour leads a new partnership with Tunstall Healthcare
[25/10/2023] Celebrating 60 years of computer science and AI with our alumni
[24/10/2023] Professor Wenfei Fan elected Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering
[11/10/2023] Smart scalpel could help doctors hone surgical skills, study finds
[10/10/2023] Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2023
[25/09/2023] Informatics Researchers recognised for a historic paper on effect handlers
[21/09/2023] David Sterratt Awarded Edinburgh Teaching Award and HEA Fellowship
[24/08/2023] Elizabeth Polgreen receives the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship
[31/07/2023] The Bayes Centre Welcomes Professor Ruth King as its New Director
[25/07/2023] Ram Ramamoorthy among Asian Tech Pioneers 2023
[17/07/2023] Imagining Futures AI on Film Festival marks 60 Years of Computer Science & AI at Edinburgh
[19/06/2023] Jane Hillston recognised in King’s Birthday Honours
[16/06/2023] AI algorithms find trio of drugs that could fight effects of ageing
[24/05/2023] Antonis Katsarakis receives the EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award
[19/05/2023] Robert van Glabbeek elected to membership of Academia Europaea
[10/05/2023] Phil Wadler elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
[05/05/2023] Changemakers from Informatics
[04/05/2023] Professor Helen Hastie appointed the new Head of School of Informatics
[03/05/2023] Tanya Shreedhar in the final of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK and Ireland Rising Talents Awards
[28/04/2023] Informatics student wins Lovelace Colloquium poster competition
[27/04/2023] The School of Informatics welcomes two new Chancellors Fellows
[25/04/2023] Hakan Bilen’s work with a naval architecture firm Tymor Marine brings deep learning to ancient art of weighing ship
[21/04/2023] Gordon Plotkin elected the International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
[20/04/2023] The NQCC’s Software Lab at the University of Edinburgh launched yesterday
[31/03/2023] Edinburgh Science: from MENACE to Deepfakes – how computers and AI are changing our future
[23/03/2023] Informatics shines in the 2023 QS world subject rankings
[22/03/2023] Three Informatics academics elected as RSE fellows
[21/03/2023] Informatics research will bring high speed broadband to rural areas
[10/03/2023] Quantum and AI centre launched with Cisco
[24/02/2023] Volunteer with Scouts like Douglas Armstrong
[17/02/2023] Top Android phones from China collect more user data than previously thought
[26/01/2023] We are celebrating 60 years of computer science and AI reserach
[19/01/2023] INF1B Object-oriented programming course to get an innovative revamp
[09/01/2023] AI and robots could help detect UTIs early
[06/01/2023] AI tools could boost social media users' privacy
[21/12/2022] Informatics students win bronze again at NWERC
[30/11/2022] Quantum lab set to boost discoveries
[21/11/2022] New funding from Input Output Global will boost cryptography projects run in the School of Informatics
[13/10/2022] Informatics student wins best paper award for a study on using lessons learnt from steamboat accidents in developin
[04/10/2022] Informatics researcher’s thesis earns an outstanding dissertation prize from TU Dresden
[30/09/2022] Informatics student named a runner-up in the Young Software Engineer of the Year competition
[29/09/2022] AI fire helmet could help save lives
[28/09/2022] Edinburgh students install UK’s first Hyperloop test track
[08/09/2022] Nadin Kökciyan and collaborator propose personal privacy assistants to help us tackle overwhelming privacy decision
[07/09/2022] Contact tracing tool supports supplies during pandemic
[22/07/2022] The vHive ecosystem bridges the gap between the serverless cloud industry and academia
[20/06/2022] Kobi Gal elected fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence
[13/06/2022] Informatics student wins an award for founding global waste reduction startup
[24/05/2022] Informatics researchers awarded for their seminal work on effect handlers
[18/05/2022] Informatics PhD student wins 3rd prize in the Shape the Future of ITS Competition
[12/05/2022] Informatics REF2021 results: global reach, genuine impact
[10/05/2022] Jane Hillston elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
[06/05/2022] Raul Garcia-Patron Sanchez and colleagues find that quantum advantage is still some way off
[21/04/2022] Data scientists collaborate with artists to explore global climate data
[18/04/2022] Informatics student finalist in Undergraduate of the Year Awards
[14/04/2022] John Vines to co-lead new Centre for Investing Innovation
[08/04/2022] Informatics students showcase assistive robotics at SDP Course Trade Fair
[04/04/2022] Quantum Spies at the Edinburgh Science Festival
[31/03/2022] Elham Kashefi helps to achieve the next milestone for quantum computing
[25/03/2022] Researchers answer a question inspired by a century old problem in quantum mechanics
[23/03/2022] Barbara Webb elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh
[17/03/2022] Celebrating birthdays online may pose a security risk, Informatics researchers discover
[08/03/2022] Celebrating women in Informatics
[22/02/2022] Walid Magdy finds bots on Twitter have less influence than celebrities
[11/02/2022] Women and girls in Informatics
[2021] Informatics students win bronze in an international programming competition
[2021] Tariq Elahi will work on a project aimed at keeping children safe online
[2021] School of Informatics graduates from 25 years ago meet online
[2021] Ross Anderson looks into impact of client-side scanning on citizen’s privacy
[2021] Informatics student awarded RSE Saltire Early Career Fellowship
[2021] Informatics student awarded UKNEST Scholarship
[2021]Minerva Informatics Equality Award goes to EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
[2021] AI spinout offers new route to 5G network management based on research by Paul Patras
[2021] Informatics researchers raise privacy concerns about data sharing on Android phones
[2021] Informatics work towards drought prediction model accepted for ICML workshop
[2021] Informatics study finds emoji skin tone has no negative effect on user perception
[2021] Ajitha Rajan awarded Royal Society Industrial Fellowship
[2021] Informatics student presents at NeuroMONSTER 2021 conference
[2021] Jane Hillston receives Royal Society of Edinburgh Lord Kelvin Medal
[2021] EUFS AI Team win ADS Class Competition at FS UK 2021
[2021] RSE Saltire Early Career Fellowship recipient to join Diego Oyarzun’s research team at the School of Informatics
[2021] Research paper by Informatics student accepted for OpenSym 2021 conference
[2021] Paper by Sharon Goldwater and former Informatics student receives ISCA Award
[2021] Informatics academics appointed as Turing Fellows in 2021-22
[2021] Informatics graduate's contribution to tackling the global medical equipment supply problem
[2021] Mirella Lapata will teach machines to reason
[2021] Informatics study suggests that yellow emojis are not neutral symbols of identity
[2021] The School of Informatics joins the TestEd project
[2021] Informatics students and staff give their time to the Turing Trust
[2021] Members of SLMC Group in the semi-finals of $10M ANA AvatarX Prize
[2021] Edinburgh researchers provide data analysis for a cancer study that revealed weak spots in chemotherapy-resistant cells
[2021] Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science student in the finals of Future CFO of the Year competition
[2021] COVIBOT project examines doctors' perception of robots helping out during the pandemic
[2021] SPARKLE algorithm in a race to make health trackers, smart locks and baby monitors safer
[2021] Computer Science student wins a poster competition with her insight into emotion AI
[2021] Undergraduate students to present hackathon-winning app at Google’s Demo Derby Week
[2021] Informatics researchers use smart meters to revolutionise independent living in care homes
[2021] Success for Informatics students at the EUSA Student Awards
[2021] Royal Society honours Informatics academics
[2021] Hands Off! Barbara Webb reports that human hands are not required to do clever things
[2021] Elham Kashefi named Margaret Intrapreneur Europe in prestigious awards
[2021] Chancellor's Fellowships awarded to Informatics researchers Michele Ciampi and Andrea Weisse
[2021] Sethu Vijayakumar leads Horizon 2020 project using assistive robotics in healthcare
[2021] Sharon Goldwater and colleagues take a computational approach to understanding how infants learn language
[2021] ACRC research programme led by Jacques Fleuriot uses AI to enhance health and care
[2021] Undergraduate student kickstarts career in Aerospace with Brooke Owens Fellowship
[2021] Sethu Vijayakumar on how robots could tackle healthcare challenges and save lives
[2021] Digital hub supported by Maria Wolters offers vital service to homeless community
[2021] Prewired co-founded by Informatics' Ewan Klein secures funding to take Coding Club online
[2021] Andy Gordon and Gordon Plotkin Appointed Fellows of ACM
[2021] IoT Education Kit compiled by Paul Patras now available via Arm University Program
[2021] Undergraduate Student becomes the First Rwandan to be Awarded Rhodes Scholarship
[2021] Fiona McNeill Awarded Principal’s Medal for Helping Students Adapt to Hybrid Teaching
[2021] Informatics researchers to help make autonomous systems more responsible
[2020] City bus firm’s app upgrade helps keep ticket fraud in check
[2020] Teaching a Robot Dog New Tricks with Dr. Alex Li
[2020] Björn Ross awarded the Stafford Beer Medal for Best Paper in EJIS in 2019
[2020] Edinburgh Students Win the Official MLH 2020 Europe Season
[2020] Edinburgh-Leeds collaboration produces first ever 3D-printed tongue surface
[2020] Edinburgh to lead £3.2 million project into the Governance and Regulation of Decision-making Machines
[2020] Sam Lindley Awarded Prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
[2020] Scientists to create a Digital Twin of Antarctica
[2020] Cyber centre set to reduce digital harm
[2020] Team of Undergraduate Students Win Filecoin Challenge at Spark University Hackathon
[2020] Edinburgh joins ELLIS, European AI collaboration
[2020] Diego Oyarzun involved in Principal’s Innovation Award-winning Project
[2020] University joins quantum leap in computing
[2020] Perdita Stevens works on empowering non-computing specialists
[2020] Alan Bundy Presented with EurAI Distinguished Service Award 2020
[2020] Talos the 6-foot humanoid robot is the latest addition to our robotics research lab
[2020] EUFS AI Team win Formula Student UK AI competition for the third consecutive year
[2020] Bonnie Webber awarded 2020 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award
[2020] Two Informatics projects gain DDI funding to aid local Covid-19 recovery
[2020] George Karabassis creates Covid-tracking website that centres user experience
[2020] William Waites involved in test, trace and isolate study to save lives and economy
[2020] Privacy is key to success of contact tracing, says Aggelos Kiayias
[2020] Undergraduate students create website comparing Covid-19's impact in Scotland
[2020] Barbara Webb and developing beetle-brained robots
[2020] Kwabena Nuamah leads software start-up tracking Covid-19 symptoms in Ghana
[2020] Mohsen Kadhem to develop a CPS for lung disease diagnosis and treatment
[2020] The Appleton Tower face shield factory
[2020] Three Informatics Nominations Shortlisted in 2020 Teaching Awards
[2020] E-voting protocol developed by Myrto Arapinis' team used in election experiment
[2020] SDP Course Trade Fair Replaced by Online Showcase
[2020] SigInt Cyber Security Society's CTF Tournament a Resounding Success
[2020] RSE Honours Chair in Design Informatics in 2020 Fellowship List
[2020] Ex-Informatics Professor Colin Stirling Wins CONCUR Test of Time Award
[2019] Aurora Constantin Awarded Edinburgh Teaching Award and HEA Fellowship
[2019] Informatics Undergraduates secure Pioneer Funding for their Automated Customer Support Model
[2019] SIGINT First Team Win Deloitte’s 2019 Capture the Flag Competition
[2019] Former PhD Students Win Scottish Tech Startup of the Year
[2019] Mirella Lapata named one of six new ACL fellows
[2019] Cristina Alexandru Completes her Edinburgh Teaching Award and Becomes Senior Fellow of the HEA
[2019] Wenfei Fan elected foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
[2019] CISA to become Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute
[2019] Cutting-edge robot makes short work of gardening
[2019] Mirella Lapata will give this year's Karen Spärck Jones lecture
[2019] Robotics hub unveils latest offshore advances
[2019] Vaishak Belle takes up his post as the Royal Society University Research Fellow
[2019] AI can predict social media users’ opinions
[2019] Informatics Researchers to work on Smart Energy Research Lab (SERL) Project
[2019] Edinburgh students win driverless race car competition again
[2019] Nature’s insect navigators inspire robots that find their own way
[2019] SUMMA delivers a state-of-the-art media monitoring system
[2019] Experiential AI research agenda to bring together scientists and artists
[2019] Informatics researchers to work on a UK-wide Quantum Technologies Research project
[2019] Eurographics Young Researcher of the Year Award for Benjamin Bach
[2019] King - man + woman = queen: the hidden algebraic structure of words
[2019] Informatics students nominated for UK Open Source Awards
[2019] How quantum physics will change our views on cyber security
[2019] Grant Passmore, Informatics alumnus and AI innovator, goes from strength to strength
[2019] Distinguished Edinburgh graduate receives ACM A.M. Turing Award
[2019] Mirella Lapata elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh
[2019] Informatics Alum Wins the Distinguished Dissertation
[2019] Smart home systems must switch to better security, study finds
[2019] AI scientists team up with Japanese experts
[2018] Guido Sanguinetti nominated for Medical Physics breakthrough of the year
[2018] ELLIS launched with Informatics researchers on board
[2018] Royal visit gives Bayes Centre seal of approval
[2018] Suffrage awards for science pair
[2018] Ministers’ visit puts seal on City Region Deal
[2018] Mark Steedman awarded ACL Lifetime Achievement Award
[2018] Gordon Plotkin awarded Ada Lovelace Medal
[2018] Wayra UK and University of Edinburgh to launch new AI and Blockchain Accelerator
[2018] Wenfei Fan elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
[2017] Jon Oberlander 1962-2017
[2017] Scottish Cyber Security collaboration established
[2017] Alan Kay receives an honorary degree from the School of Informatics
[2017] Informatics student awarded 2nd prize in the Young Software Engineer of the Year 2017 awards
[2017] Informatics former Director of Commercialisation recognised in Queen’s birthday honours
[2017] University of Edinburgh to become Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security Research
[2017] Beyond Bitcoin – IOHK and University of Edinburgh establish Blockchain Technology Laboratory
[2017] ICSA researchers widely recognised at the International CGO Symposiums
[2016] MICRO Hall of Fame
[2016] ACM SIGPLAN Award
[2016] Principal’s Medal for Colin Adams
[2016] Valentino Braitenberg winner
[2016] SIGMOD Test of Time Award
[2016] Alumnus awarded Lovelace Medal
[2016] Dr Goldwater wins BCS Award
[2016] Jon Oberlander becomes FRSE
[2016] Alumnus wins GCHQ Christmas puzzle
[2015] Professor Vijayakumar awarded Tam Dalyell Prize 2015
[2015] Informatics alumnus wins global final
[2015] ICMI Ten-Year Technical Impact Award
[2015] Informatics Team are runner ups in British Library Labs Award
[2015] Professor Leonid Libkin elected to Academia Europaea
[2015] Informatics Undergraduate Comes Runner Up in Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards 2015
[2015] The Harmonium Project celebrates 50 years of the Edinburgh International Choir
[2015] Dr Iain Murray Wins EUSA Teaching Award
[2015] Don Sannella Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
[2015] Gordon Plotkin Receives EATCS Award 2014
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