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Computer science

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Our vision for computer science is one that champions its fundamental importance to continued advances in all areas of science, while stressing the role of foundational research in enabling a steady stream of step-changes in potential for future applications. Heriot-Watt University is a partner in the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA).

Computer science within MACS covers two main areas,

  1. fundamental research into logics and languages supporting safe, efficient and ultra-high performance systems of the future, and
  2. research and development of computational intelligence in a broad range of areas, spanning speech and dialogue interaction, autonomous robotics, bio and medical informatics, and advanced data analytics