1. Welcome to Informatics
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Welcome to Informatics

2. What? What is Informatics: Store, Process, Communicate
Information in Natural and Artificial Systems – use whatever examples come to mind 2

3. Who? Staff
UK - 201
Canada - 1
Australia - 2
Chile - 1
Argentina - 1
Colombia - 1
People’s Republic
of China - 7
Croatia - 1
Denmark - 1
France - 3
Germany - 16
Greece - 5
Hong Kong - 1
India - 6
Republic of Ireland - 1
Italy - 3
Japan - 1
Jordan - 1
Mauritius - 1
Draws high quality staff from all over the world, re-inforces linkages with the best world wide:
Japan - Riken, Honda, Sony, Institure for Systems Biology
China - Behang, Tianjin
Russia - St Petersberg, Moscow State
Europe - pretty well everywhere via large number of Framework projects we participate in and lead
USA - Stanford, Berkley, U Penn, CMU, MIT, UT Austin…….
Netherlands - 3
Poland - 3
Portugal - 1
Romania - 1
Russia - 5
Slovenia - 1
Spain - 2
Sri Lanka - 1
Sweden - 2
Taiwan - 2
Ukraine - 1
USA - 23

4. How?
We do three things
Teaching, - we do this with the students e.g. compsoc
Research, - we have 6 institutes to structure
Commercialisation – we connect to the commercial world 4

5. Fun!!
We do three things
Teaching, - we do this with the students e.g. compsoc
Research, - we have 6 institutes to structure
Commercialisation – we connect to the commercial world 5

6. Power
Dominate the European scene; top echelon in the world with MIT, Stanford and CMU as peers.
We are more powerful than UCL, Oxford, Manchester, Cambridge,… 6

7. Over 100 Academics 150 Post Docs 300 PhD students 350 Masters students
Scale
Over 100 Academics
150 Post Docs
300 PhD students
350 Masters students
800 Undergraduates
Dominate the European scene; top echelon in the world with MIT, Stanford and CMU as peers.
We are more powerful than UCL, Oxford, Manchester, Cambridge,… 7

8. Diversity Quantum computation Algorithms & complexity Software
engineering
Algebra, games
& concurrency
Verification
Security
Privacy
Systems
modelling
Databases
Computer
vision
Graphics and
animation
Robotics
Multi-agent systems
and planning
Automated
reasoning &
knowledge
Bioinformatics
Machine
learning
Neuro-
informatics
Wireless
sensor
networks
systems
architecture
Cognitive
Semantics &
discourse
Multimodal
interaction
information
extraction
Large scale
natural
language
processing
Speech synthesis
and recognition
Data-
intensive
research
This is our map of what we do:
We are diverse
Pick a couple of contrasts e.g. Robotics and Quantum, or Speech Recognition and Verification 8

9. Interdisciplinarity
And this is from the opening concert of this year’s festival – we fed data on human-data interaction –
Singers bringing a score to life – into the spectacular visualisations for the Harmonium Project,
Seen live by 20 thousand people.

10. By Research…

11. By Research in a CDT

12. Masters Courses Informatics Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Science
Computer Science
Data Science
(Advanced) Design Informatics
Also:
HPC, Speech and Language Processing,
Design and Digital Media

13. Design Informatics: Human- Data Interaction
We’re less interested in computers than in the flow of data – and the values associated with it.
How can we help humans interact with and through data …
So, deisgning systems By, with and from data.

14. Welcome to Edinburgh
Edinburgh is a beautiful place to live (especially when the sun shines!!). 14