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From: PEREIRA@SRI-AI.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: U of Edinburgh, Scotland Inquiry
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Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 01:31:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 01:31:28 1983
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Since the Lighthill Report, a lot has changed for AI in Britain. The 
Alvey Report (British Department of Industry) and the Science and 
Engineering Research Council (SERC) initiative on Intelligent 
Knowledge-Based Systems (IKBS) have released a lot of money for 
Information Technology in general, and AI in particular (It remains to
be seen whether that huge amount of money -- 100s of millions -- is 
going to be spent wisely). The Edinburgh Department of AI has managed 
to get a substantial slice of that money. They have been actively 
looking for people both at lecturer and research associate/fellow 
level [a good opportunity for young AIers from the US to get to know 
Scotland, her great people and unforgetable Highlands].

The AI Dept. have recently added 3 (4?) new people to their teaching 
staff, and have more machines, research staff, and students than ever.
The main areas they work on are: Natural Language (Henry Thompson, 
Mark Steedman, Graeme Ritchie), controlled deduction and problem 
solving (Alan Bundy and his research assistant and students), Robotics
(Robin Popplestone, Pat Ambler and a number of others), LOGO-style 
stuff (Jim Howe [head of department] and Peter Ross) and AI languages 
(Robert Rae, Dave Bowen and others).  There are probably others I 
don't remember. The AI Dept.  is both on UUCP and on a network 
connected to ARPANET:

        <username>%edxa%ucl-cs@isid (ARPANET)
        ...!vax135!edcaad!edee!edai!<username> (UUCP)

I have partial lists of user names for both connections which I will
mail directly to interested persons.

Fernando Pereira SRI AI Center [an old Edinburgh hand]

pereira@sri-ai (ARPA) ...!ucbvax!pereira@sri-ai (UUCP)