MSc in Informatics

At Edinburgh we define Informatics as the study of how natural and artificial systems store, process and communicate information. Research in Informatics promises to take information technology to a new level, and to place information at the heart of 21st century science, technology and society.

Programme Content

This is our most popular MSc (Master of Science) course, providing the widest range of choice of speciality. You can take full advantage of that fact that our research spans the entire field of Informatics, including some areas of expertise that are unique to Edinburgh:

• Databases
• Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology
• Computer Systems and Software Engineering
• Fundamentals of High Performance Computing Systems
• Geoinformatics
  
• Intelligent Robotics
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Learning from Data
• Natural Language and Language Engineering
• Neural Computation and Neuroinformatics
  
• Theoretical Computer Science

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