About us

A brief overview of the school and the key areas we are involved in including research, teaching and commercialisation.

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In 1998, the School of Informatics was created through the merger of the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Centre for Cognitive Science, Department of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, and Human Communication Research Centre.

We are called the School of Informatics because our research goes beyond computer science and encomapsses various disciplines such as artificial intelligence, cogitive science

Join us and we will help you to make the most of the opportunities we offer.

100% of our impact case studies are world-leading in the REF 2021 assessment for computer science and informatics.  We also received 100% top grades for our environment statement.

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The School of Informatics is located in central Edinburgh.

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