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The School of Informatics is an academic unit of the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, responsible for research, teaching, outreach and commercialisation in Informatics. It was created in 1998 from the former Department of Artificial Intelligence, the Centre for Cognitive Science and the Department of Computer Science, along with the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute and the Human Communication Research Centre. Research in the School of Informatics draws on these component disciplines and much of it is interdisciplinary in nature. The school is especially well known for research in the areas of artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, systems biology, mathematical logic and theoretical computer science; but also contributes to many other areas of informatics. The school was ranked 1st in the UK according to the Guardian University Tables 2008,〔(Guardian University Tables — Computer Science & IT )〕 and 2011,〔(Guardian University Tables — Computer Science & IT )〕 as well as being ranked 1st in the UK in the last two RAE rankings in 2001 and 2008,〔(Informatics News: RAE 2008 results: Informatics and Computer Science )〕 and in the subsequent 2014 REF (successor to RAE) ranking. The School of Informatics was ranked 12th in the world by the QS World University Rankings 2014. ==Research == The School of Informatics was awarded a 5 *A〔(2001 UK Research Assessment Exercise - UOA 25 : Computer Science )〕 in the UK HEFCE's 2001 RAE, the only computer science department in the country to achieve this highest possible rating.〔 In the 2008 RAE, the School's "Quality Profile" was 35/50/15/0/0, which means that of the over 100 FTE staff research outputs evaluated, 35% were found "world-leading (4 *)" and 50% "internationally excellent (3 *)".〔(2008 Research Assessment Exercise - UOA 23 : Computer science and informatics )〕 These figures can be interpreted in a number of ways, but place the School first by volume and tied for second (following Cambridge with 45/45/10/0/0) by percentage of research rated 3 * or 4 *.〔 The School is generally considered world-leading, standing with the foremost U.S. institutes, particularly in areas such as artificial intelligence, natural language processing and machine translation, and theoretical computer science. The School has seven research Institutes: ; Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (IANC) : Theoretical and empirical study of brain processes and artificial learning systems, drawing on neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, computational science, mathematics and statistics. ; Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications (CISA) : Basic and applied research and development in knowledge representation and reasoning. :Through its Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI) it works with others to deploy the technologies associated with this research. ;Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation (ILCC) : Research on all aspects of natural language processing, drawing on machine learning, statistical modeling, and computational, psychological, and linguistic theories of communication among humans and between humans and machines using text, speech and other modalities. ;Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA) : Architecture and engineering of future computing systems: performance and scalability; innovative algorithms, architectures, compilers, languages and protocols. ; Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour (IPAB) : Linking computational action, perception, representation, transformation and generation processes to real or virtual worlds: statistical machine learning, computer vision, mobile and humanoid robotics, motor control, graphics and visualization. ; Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS) :Developing and applying foundational understanding of computation and communication: formal models, mathematical theories, and software tools. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「University of Edinburgh School of Informatics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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