Writings

"Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University : A Perspective", Jim Howe, 2007.

"A Short History of the Early Years of Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh", Christopher K. I. Williams, Vassilis Galanos and Xiao Yang, 2024. To be presented at the Workshop on the History of AI in Europe, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 20 Oct 2024.

The History of the DReaM Group. Alan Bundy, In Mathematical Reasoning: The History and Impact of the DReaM Group (pp. 1-35), Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021.

Pat Fothergill (Pat Ambler): Early worker in robotics and the use of AI in engineering design, Derek Sleeman, AISB Quarterly, 146 (pp. 4-8), April 2017.

Harry Barrow's blog about his time at the Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception (DMIP), University of Edinburgh, 1969 -1975.

Development and establishment in Artificial Intelligence, in B. Bloomfield (ed.) The Question of AI, Croom Helm, London, 1987 pp. 106-164. Extended version of a paper with the same title appearing in Elias, N. et al. (eds) Scientific Establishments and Hierarchies. Sociology of the Sciences, Vol. VI, 1982, pp. 169-217, with a new section: "The Commercialisation of Artificial Intelligence".

This website has been built by Prof Chris Williams , Dr Vassilis Galanos and Ms Xiao Yang, as part of the Edinburgh AI&CS History Project. This work is funded by the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, February-July 2024.

We thank everyone who has contributed to the collection of information, documents, web links etc for their help in preserving the history. We welcome additonal information and/or corrections about the the history of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Cognitive Science in Edinburgh.

• Xiao.Yang@ed.ac.uk
• C.K.I.Williams@ed.ac.uk