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Subject: Re: U of Edinburgh, Scotland Inquiry - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 22-Sep-83 23:25:15 EDT
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uiucdcs!marcel    Sep 22 13:29:00 1983


I can't tell you about the Dept of AI at Edinburgh, but I do know about
the Machine Intelligence Research Unit chaired by Prof. Donald Michie.

The MIRU will fold in future, because Prof Michie intends to set up a new
research institute in the UK. He's been planning this and fighting for it for
quite a while now. It will be called the "Turing Institute", and is intended
to become one of the prime centers of AI research in the UK. In fact, it will
be one of the very few centers at which research is the top priority, rather
than teaching. Michie is has recently been approached by the University of
Strathclyde near Glasgow, which is interested in functioning as the associated
teaching institution (cp SRI and Stanford). If that works out the Turing
Institute may be operational by September 1984.