STUDENTSHIPS FOR PhD STUDY IN THE DIVISION OF INFORMATICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Nine fully-funded research studentships are available for: * UK students * EU students * students worldwide Full funding means: we pay your fees - you study and tutor - you receive 8000 pounds to cover subsistence in your first year, rising in second and third years. An additional amount of 800 - 1200 pounds can be earned for tutoring and demonstrating each year. Payment of fees for overseas students is subject to successful competition for an Overseas Research Studentship. Partial funding is also available. Informatics --------------------------- Informatics is the study of information and computation, in both natural and artificial systems. It comprises a vast range of scientific and engineering endeavour and has enormous economic and social impact. The University's Division of Informatics brings together the former Departments of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Computer Science, together with the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute. The Division possesses a combination of breadth and strength unparallelled elsewhere in the UK and competitive world-wide; as an intellectual endeavour it is strikingly original. The Division is the only university grouping in the UK to have achieved the top 5*A rating in Computer Science in the UK government's 2001 Research Assessment Exercise round. With 87.1 research-active staff submitted for assessment, it is the UK's biggest research group in this area. We currently have around 160 students studying for PhD, and 80 for our MSc. PhD study --------------------------- PhD study is carried out within one of our six research Institutes: CISA the Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications IANC the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation ICCS the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems ICSA the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture IPAB the Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour LFCS the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science CISA undertakes basic and applied research and development in knowledge representation and reasoning. Through its applications institute AIAI, it works with others to deploy the technologies associated with this research. IANC fosters the study of adaptive processes in both artificial and biological systems; two themes are the study of artificial learning systems and the analysis and modelling of brain processes. ICCS pursues basic research into the nature of communication among humans and between humans and machines, using text, speech and graphics, and the design of interactive dialogue systems, using computational and algorithmic approaches. ICSA seeks development of a better understanding of systems components, both hardware and software, and their integration and interaction; this involves not only improving their raw performance and cost-effectiveness, but also making them more connectable and interoperable, more reliable, more usable and more applicable. The interests of IPAB are how to link computational perception, representation, transformation and generation processes to external worlds---whether real or virtual. The mission of LFCS is to achieve a foundational understanding of problems and issues arising in computation and communication through the development of appropriate and applicable formal models and mathematical theories. Further information --------------------------- About graduate study, the Division of Informatics, and the University as a whole is available at: http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/prospectus/graduate/ http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ http://www.ed.ac.uk And you can mail queries to our Graduate Secretary, Mrs Betty Hughes: igs@informatics.ed.ac.uk. Admission Application Form can be downloaded from: http://www.postgrad.ed.ac.uk/applicat/Scieng.pdf MSc Study Further details of the MSc degrees on offer can be obtained from Judith Gordon, MSc Admissions Coordinator, Graduate School, 5 Forrest Hill, email msc-admissions@inf.ed.ac.uk. DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS FOR MSc and PhD IS 31ST MARCH 2002. Betty Hughes Admin Secretary Graduate School email: betty@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Tel. No. 650 4432 FAX No. 650 6626