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The Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI) at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh was a non-profit technology transfer organisation that promoted Artificial Intelligence research.

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History

AIAI was created in July 1983, and received its formal charter from the University of Edinburgh in July 1984. [1] It joined the School of Informatics when the School was created from a number of departments and research institutes in 1998. The Director of AIAI was Austin Tate. In 2019 it became part of a larger research institute named the Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute within the School of Informatics. [2]

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References

  1. "Brief history of the School of Informatics". The University of Edinburgh.
  2. "CISA to become Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute". The University of Edinburgh.