Research Activity

The School is one of the longest-established research institutes for computing in the country, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2007. In the last, 2008, Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), the School achieved an impressive 80% of staff rated internationally excellent or World leading (3* or 4*) translating to a grade-point average (GPA) of 3.05.  This places the School in the top computing submissions in the UK, a large and highly competitive grouping, and confirms the School’s status as a leading research institute for computing.

The School conducts research in the foundations of computer science and in a variety of applied and multidisciplinary settings. It has attracted grants from each of the seven UK Research Councils, government departments, the European Union and many industrial sources.

Our research is organised into 3 broad areas of research encompassing 10 research groups:

Artificial intelligence - Computer vision | Knowledge Representation and Reasoning | Natural Language Processing
Multidisciplinary Informatics - Bio-systems | Internet Computing | Scheduling and Constraints| Scientific computation | Visualization and Virtual Reality
Theory of Computing - Algorithms and complexity | Program analysis and logic programming