University of Edinburgh

Britain's oldest AI research centre: Donald Michie's Experimental Programming Unit (1965) grew into a department that produced the Freddy robot, Edinburgh Prolog, and Geoffrey Hinton's PhD.

Mission

To advance machine intelligence research, from symbolic reasoning and robotics to modern informatics.

Founded By

Donald Michie

Key Products & Research

Freddy II robot
Edinburgh Prolog
Machine Intelligence workshop series
School of Informatics

Headquarters

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Founded

1965

Status

Active

People

Robert Kowalski1974

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