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From: ainac@castle.ed.ac.uk (Nicolai A. Czempin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: postgrad AI at Edinburgh
Message-ID: <1176@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Nov 89 23:08:18 GMT
References: <1652@aipna.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: ainac@castle.ed.ac.uk (Nicolai A. Czempin)
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
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In article <1652@aipna.ed.ac.uk> cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
You may be interested in what students here think. I'm a 1st year AI+CS
Undergrad. I might be able to answer those questions a member of staff
a) can't answer (e.g. student related+opinions)
b) isn't allowed to answer (or he'll lose his/her job 8*)
c) doesn't want to answer
>
>The Department was established in 1966. It is a department in its own
>right, and probably the largest general AI research operation outside
	    ^^^^^^^^
MHO is that this is the best place to go & do AI outside USA (apart from
Sussex University, my second (and only other) choice.

>the USA. We have about 24 academic staff. I don't know how you size a
>dept, but as an indication we have about 120 people on our phone list.
Well we have ~80 people doing the first year AI course, but you have to
realize the unusual (for the UK, not the USA) system at EU.
Overall I think the University has over 13000 students, and makes it one
of the largest (if not THE) non-college Universities in Britain.
>Although UK universities are in general being forced to contract, we
>have been exempt from this.
Nyaah,nyaah :~)
>
>We run two joint undergraduate degrees: 1) Liguistics and AI; 2)
>Computer Science and AI.[...]
OH no, wrong! I'm certainly doing AI+Comp.Sci., and I'd like to stress
it. I wouldn't have come here just for CS.

[ other stuff about PG deleted ]
>The connection with Physics is the Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer
>Project, hosted by Physics, involving a 400 CPU Meiko transputer-based
>Computing Surface, the largest parallel computer in Europe. Part of our
This thing is seriously huge!(But then again, I couldn't tell a CRAY
from a DEC)


>
>Joint AI and CS (BSc hons)
ah that's better
>
>Joint AI and Linguistics (MA hons)
N.B. the MA!


PLEASE NOTE that the above opinions are strictly my own.
(I don't normally have a disclaimer, but I thought it would be
appropriate in this case.)

I am willing to help about UGing @ EU (If you can decypher it %^), but
don't ask me about PG.


-- 
Nicolai Czempin 
"I am not left-handed either"