Images relating to the History of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Edinburgh

Heads of Units and Departments 1963-1984

Richard Gregory

Head of Bionics Research Laboratory in Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception 1967-1970.
Image credit: History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, Queen Mary, University of London

Jim Howe

Head of Bionics Research Laboratory 1970-1974.
Head of Department, Department of Artificial Intelligence 1977-1996.
Image credit: Scottish Enterprise

Christopher Longuet-Higgins

Head of Theoretical Section in Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception 1967-1971.
Head of Theoretical Psychology Unit in School of Artificial Intelligence, 1971-1973.
Image credit: From an obituary for Christopher Longuet-Higgins, 1923 to 2004 in Molecular Physics 103 141-142 (2005)

Bernard Meltzer

Head of Metamathematics Unit 1966-1971.
Head of Department of Computational Logic in School of Artificial Intelligence, 1971-1974.
Head of Department, Department of Artificial Intelligence 1974-1977.
Image credit: University of Edinburgh

Sidney Michaelson

Head of Department, Department of Computer Science 1966-1975.
Image credit: University of Edinburgh

Donald Michie

Head of Experimental Programming Unit 1963-1971 (part of Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception 1967-1971).
Head of Department of Machine Intelligence in the School of AI (1971-1974).
Director, Machine Intelligence Research Unit 1974-1984.
Image credit: Wikipedia under CC-BY 4.0 license

Peter Schofield

Head of Department, Department of Computer Science 1975-1987.
Image credit: University of Edinburgh

Other images

Edinburgh Freddy Robot (mid 1960s to 1981)

More images available from AIAI website.
Image credit: University of Edinburgh

LOGO turtle

This is a turtle robot (1970s) from Jim Howe's group. This simple robot was designed as a visual aid for teaching simple programming languages (e.g., Turtle LOGO) to children. The robot could rotate in place and move forward and backward. There was also a command to raise and lower a pen. With a program based on suitable commands, one could draw different patterns. (Thanks to Bob Fisher for providing the Turtle and the information.)
Image credit: University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh Computer History Project archive

PDP 1540
Example image: PDP 1540
Image credit: Edinburgh Computer History Project

The archive contains images from George Ross, images from JGH, and a DCS video from 1986.

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