Welcome to Informatics Header Date Welcome to Informatics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

By Research…

By Research in a CDT

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

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.

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