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Celebrating 60 years of computer science and AI with our alumni | School of Informatics | School of Informatics
[25/10/2023] In October 2023 the School of Informatics had the pleasure of welcoming our alumni back in Edinburgh. A weekend of celebrations included a dose of nostalgia and enthused us all to look into the very exciting future.
New drug target identified in fight against resistant infections | School of Informatics | School of Informatics
The discovery of a new mechanism of resistance to common antibiotics could pave the way for improved treatments for harmful bacterial infections, a study suggests.
Headedness and exocentric compounding | Word Structure
Semantic headedness typically serves as the primary criterion for compound endocentricity, i.e. whether a compound has a head. The semantic head is often defined as the hyperonym from which the den...
SIGINT win Deloitte’s 2019 Capture the Flag competition | School of Informatics | School of Informatics
[2019] SIGINT Cyber Security Society members Gwion, Wiktor and Ally won the national competition for the second year in a row, beating teams from all over the country.
Phil Wadler elected a Fellow of the Royal Society | School of Informatics | School of Informatics
[10/05/2023] Professor Philip Wadler FRS Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the School of Informatics, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He joins existing fellows from the School of Informatics: Jane Hillston, Alan Bundy,
Professor Geoffrey Hinton Distinguished Lecture on Boltzmann Machines | School of Informatics | School of Informatics
On Thursday, 24 April 2025, Professor Geoffrey Hinton, an Informatics alumnus and Nobel Prize-winner, delivered a Distinguished Lecture on Boltzmann Machines. Professor Hinton joined the lecture virtually from Toronto, Canada.
SUMMA delivers a state-of-the-art media monitoring system | School of Informatics | School of Informatics
[2019] Edinburgh Informatics researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from University College London, University of Sheffield, BBC and Deutsche Welle, have developed a system that will help journalist monitor media sources – a task that has
Jane Hillston elected a Fellow of the Royal Society | School of Informatics | School of Informatics
[10/05/2022] Professor Jane Hillston, Head of School of Informatics, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is one of only five female fellows whose research falls into a broad computer science or computational sciences fields. Jane
We are celebrating 60 years of computer science and AI research | School of Informatics | School of Informatics
[26/01/2023] During 2023, the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh celebrates 60 years of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computer Science research, highlighting the heritage of this extraordinary place as one of the leading centres
Informatics research recognised with two ACL Test-of-Time Awards | School of Informatics | School of Informatics
Research from the School of Informatics has been recognised with two ACL 2026 Test-of-Time Paper Awards, honouring work published a decade ago that continues to shape natural language processing and artificial intelligence today. The awards