2016

Dr Areti Manataki and colleagues from Moray House and Information Services have won an award for their project, Exploring flexible modes of online education.

We warmly invite local schools to join us for this year’s Cyber Security Christmas Lectures, 15 December 2016.

The Enhance research project will help Edinburgh's historic Assembly Rooms to reduce their energy usage.

Congratulations to those outstanding MSc students awarded School prizes after our winter graduation ceremony.

A team of Edinburgh Informatics PhD students has been chosen by Amazon to compete for an inaugural $1.5M prize.

Congratulations to the outstanding students awarded School prizes for their work last year.

Dr Giulio Caravagna and colleagues won Silver at the 10th Open Source Software (OSS) World Challenge.

Dr Maurice Fallon will be part of a panel discussing Robots and Rockets, Saturday 26 November.

Final year undergraduate Thomas Kerber has come second in the international security programming contest, ‘Build it, Break it, Fix it.'

Emilia Bogdanova, Joshua Green, Paul Sinclair and Dylan Ashcroft have won the Scottish University Cyber Challenge.

Exclusive to the EPSRC CDT in Pervasive Parallelism & CDT HiPEDS.

Potential MSc, MPhil and PhD Informatics students are warmly invited to come along and find out more about us.

Dr Boris Grot has been inducted into the MICRO Hall of Fame.

The School of Informatics has achieved its second Athena SWAN Silver Award for supporting women in science.

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Data Science is holding its annual research day today.

PhD student Andreas Kapourani won best paper at the prestigious European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB).

Grant Passmore’s company Aesthetic Integration has attracted funding backed by Google's Chief Business Officer.

Professor Philip Wadler has won the ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award 2016.

Ronan Turner has been Highly Commended in The Undergraduate Awards.

Jon Oberlander, our Professor of Epistemics, has been appointed Assistant Principal for Data Technology.

Dr Rob Ambrose, Principal Technologist for NASA’s Game Changing Development Program, will deliver two lectures in the Informatics Forum, 27 September 2016.

Book now to attend.

In November, the alumnus will receive the University’s highest honour for his significant contribution as our Director of Commercialisation.

Postgraduate students of statistics and machine learning from across the UK are meeting in Edinburgh, 30-31 August 2016.

Work by Design Informatics is showcased at the new Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival, 4-28 August 2016.

Dr Amos Storkey and Professor Mike O’Boyle have been awarded €680,876 from Horizon 2020, the EU Research and Innovation programme.

Senior Researcher and MSc/PhD alumna Dr Areti Manataki has won a coveted Head of College Prize.

This year’s British Logic Colloquium (BLC) will be held here in the Informatics Forum.

Professor of Robotics Sethu Vijayakumar FRSE discusses his research in the latest video from the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

S5/Year 12 pupils experience life as an Informatics student.

Robotics expert Professor Sethu Vijayakumar debuts as a judge in the new TV series.

Research postgraduate Sorcha Gilroy will speak at Edinburgh’s first Soapbox Science event.

PhD student Andrew McLeod is organising the first UK Music Informatics and Cognition (MIC) workshop of its kind.

Hugh Leather has relaunched Compucast: podcasts by computer scientists for computer scientists.

Building trust in autonomy has been the focus of a month-long programme of lectures and research, organised for 16 Stanford students.

Four Peking University students join us, 6 July-30 August 2016.

Gregor McCreadie has won a digital strategy internship in Boston, 11 June-19 August 2016

Martino Sorbaro Sindaci has been awarded a 2016 Google European PhD Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience.

Congratulations to those outstanding students awarded School prizes after our summer graduation ceremony.

Our first INSPIRE summer school for S4/Year 11 girls takes place 4-6 July 2016.

Cutting-edge techniques developed in Informatics are being used to gauge public opinion on the EU referendum.

“No change for existing and future EU students arriving in 2016/17 and 2017/18.”

Come and see our School and University for yourself.

Enterprising PhD student Sandy Enoch has scooped several awards for Marty, a robot that children can build and programme for themselves.

Congratulations to 23 students in the School of Informatics who completed an Edinburgh Award this year.

Professor Emeritus David Willshaw has been awarded the Valentino Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience.

Wanted: games designers aged 6-14 years, Saturday and/or Sunday 4-5 June 2016.

A paper by Professor Peter Buneman, Dr Adriane Chapman, and Dr James Cheney has won the 2016 ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award.

Informatics alumnus, Professor Andrew Blake, Director of the Alan Turing Institute, will give two presentations at King’s Buildings, Friday 27 May 2016.

Dr James Cheney has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant.

Professor Mirella Lapata has received five years’ funding for her project, TransModal: Translating from Multiple Modalities into Text.

Professor Leonid Libkin has been awarded a £1.14M EPSRC Fellowship.

Our NASA humanoid robot has made headlines.

Our three EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) will co-host a presentation day, Thursday 26 May 2016.

Estonian Ambassador Lauri Bambus will visit the University, 26 April 2016, to discuss digital success.

Congratulations to staff and students nominated for this year's EUSA Teaching Awards.

Examples from the Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism

Undergraduates are being offered an informal opportunity to improve their coding skills this summer.

Application deadline 2 May 2016

Professor Andrew Blake has won the 2016 BCS Lovelace Medal, the top award in computing in the UK.

Sharon Goldwater has won the BCS Roger Needham award for outstanding work in computational linguistics.

Informatics staff and students are involved in a number of events, 26 March–10 April.

Informatics Professor Jon Oberlander has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Closing date: 11 April 2016

Application deadlines from 18 March 2016

Research by the Schools of Informatics and Engineering will inspire an evening of new writing at the Traverse Theatre.

The hackathon has been showcased in Teaching Matters and the ILW Awards.

Staff and students from Edinburgh Centre for Robotics will take part in the launch of BBC micro:bit, 24 February 2016.

Congratulations to Domagoj Vrgoc, whose dissertation was highly commended in the BCS Distinguished Dissertation Competition 2015.

The University of Edinburgh has announced new funding for UK and EU masters students who are starting their studies in 2016/17.

Tech-centric Informatics alumni are warmly invited to a networking event, 14 March 2016.

Social media users want and need more control over the visibility of their private profile information such as phone numbers in communication apps, according to a recent study.

Over half a million tried but Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics graduate David McBryan is one of only three people who came close to solving the brain teaser.

Donor-funded small project grants of up to £5,000 are available to students and staff to support innovations in teaching, research and student life.

Postgraduates! Don't miss Synergising Non-Aligned Centres of Knowledge (SNACK) Club, 6pm Friday 12 February 2016.

Thursday 4 February 2016, Informatics Forum

Edinburgh Centre for Robotics has signed a contract with Honda Research Institute Europe to fund a PhD studentship in learning control and manipulation using tactile information

Our EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) are inviting prospective research students to come and meet them, in person or online.

This month’s University Staff Spotlight features Informatics’ own Professor Robert Fisher.

Members of the School of Informatics are being given an exclusive opportunity to see digital dinosaurs put bite-sized supercomputer ‘Wee ARCHIE’ through its paces.

A team of researchers from Edinburgh, Heriot Watt and Goldsmiths College London has been awarded over £1.6m to continue their work on the integration and interaction of multiple mathematical reasoning processes.

Professor Christopher Williams is one of five senior academics appointed as University Liaison Directors by the Alan Turing Institute.

The University’s programme for Innovative Learning Week, 15-19 February 2016, includes a series of exciting events from Informatics.