at Harvard University Lincoln Wallen, CTO of Improbable, former CTO of DreamWorks Animation Toby Walsh , Professor of artificial intelligence at the UNSW Hanna Wallach at Microsoft Research David H. D. Warren, creator of the Warren Abstract Machine Andrew Zisserman , computer scientist at Google DeepMind and University of Oxford Accommodation The 2002 Cowgate fire destroyed a number of buildings, including 80 South Bridge, which housed around a quarter of the school and its renowned AI library. By January 2003, space was made available in the University's Appleton Tower as a replacement. Until June 2008, the School was dispersed over five sites: three in the George Square Campus: Appleton Tower, Buccleuch Place, Forrest Hill; and two at King's Buildings: James Clerk Maxwell Building, and the Darwin Building. In June and July 2008, the School's research moved into its new home, the Informatics Forum. The building, designed by Bennetts Associates, Reaich and Hall and Buro Happold, now houses some 500 researchers, including staff and graduate students. Construction began in October 2005, and the Forum's completion in July 2008 finally brought the School's researchers together, under one roof, some ten years after its inception. In August 2018, the School gained another research space in the form of the Bayes Centre, a purpose-built data science and Artificial Intelligence hub shared with multiple other data science and informatics groups, as well as the University's Maxwell Graduate Institute, encompassing the PhD research output of the mathematics departments at both Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University. See also Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre ML Prolog Li-Fi WxWidgets Moses Hope NPL Freddy II Festival Speech Synthesis System LCF Edinburgh Multiple Access System Edinburgh IMP QCDOC Symbolic artificial intelligence Lighthill report References Computer science departments in the United Kingdom Educational institutions established in 1998 Schools of informatics Informatics 1998 establishments in Scotland