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Recommended Websites
General Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Resources
We do not maintain a comprehensive list of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science web resources. However this is a short list of web sites that we feel represent our subject in an accurate fashion.- What is AI? - This site is maintained by John McCarthy, one of the founders of the field, and he keeps it up-to-date. It is a good place to start exploring the nature of Artificial Intelligence.
- AAAI AI Topics - The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence maintains a large website full of resources. This particular page is aimed at young people and provides material they might find useful in school projects as well as suggestions for reference material.
- In Our Time: Artificial Intelligence. A BBC Radio 4 broadcast from December 2005, available via Listen Again from the BBC Website.
Libraries and Collections
University of Edinburgh Informatics Collection
The University of Edinburgh's Informatics Collection is housed in the Main Library, George Square and includes approximately 140 current journal subscriptions and some 3,500 books plus access for University staff and students to numerous online resources. Information about admission for visitors can be found under "Membership, Admission, Registration and Access"
Information about AI resources, especially with reference to the 2002 fire which destroyed the University's AI Library is available from Library Services following the AI Library fire.
The Informatics Digitisation Project arose as a result of the destruction of the AI Collection. Existing Open Access: Research reports, preprints and postprints are also available online.
Grand Challenges in Computer Research
The UKCRC sponsors the formation of Grand Challenges in Computer Research."The chief purpose of the formulation and promulgation of a grand challenge is the advancement of science. A grand challenge represents a commitment by a significant scientific community to work together towards a common goal, agreed to be valuable and achievable within a predicted timescale. The challenge is formulated by the scientists themselves as a focus for the research that they wish to pursue in any case. It is independent of any political initiatives or prior allocation of special funding. It may involve a thousand man-years of research effort, drawn from many countries and spread over ten years or more."
The following is the list of current Grand Challenge web sites. We feel that there is a place of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Research within all these challenges. However GC5, The Architecture of Brain and Mind, is of most obvious interest to AISB members. We are also aware of significant Artificial Intelligence involvement in both GC6, Dependable Systems Evolution and GC8, Learning for Life.
- GC1: In Vivo - In Silico
- GC2/4: Ubiquitous Computing: Experience, Design and Science
- GC3: Memories for Life
- GC5: The Architecture of Brain and Mind
- GC6: Dependable Systems Evolution
- GC7: Journeys in Nonclassical Computation
- GC8: Learning for Life
Degrees in Artificial Intelligence
It is impractical to list all UK degrees with significant Artificial Intelligence components. However the British Council maintains a good list.
The following links are to respectable degree course web sites.
Suitable keywords when searching for relevant degrees on these sites are Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Science and Robotics
- UCAS general course search
- Hobson's (Postgraduate) - more information information available about some courses.
- Education UK (run by the British Council)
