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posted by [identity profile] cmlc.livejournal.com at 10:24am on 14/01/2008
Nice theory, but as far as I know (ex AI student and current Informatics staff member) AI used to be based in Hope Park Square, not Buccleuch Place. Also, the Adam Ferguson Building is entirely the wrong bit of Buccleuch Place to be associated with the Cognitive Science people who are the Buccleuch Place bit of Informatics - they're at the other end in numbers 1-6. And they're much more into computational linguistics anyway rather than AI.
Also the robotics bit of AI had already been in Forrest Hill for years and years when I studied AI there in the early 80s. In the 70s lots of the AI academics in FH were wild-haired hippy types and they made a very fetching contrast to the smartly-dressed army types with whom they shared the building.
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posted by [identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com at 11:21am on 14/01/2008
I thought that AI had moved from Hope Park Square by the early 70s, though I'm not sure where it moved to (that is, I don't know if there was an intermediate address between HPS and South Bridge). I also hadn't realised how long AI had been in FH - I did the AI MSc in 96, just after Jim Howe retired, and the department still spoke about the move to FH as though it was a recent event!

You're right about *where* on Buccleuch Place, though. When Bridget said 'behind the Adam Ferguson building', I'd assumed she was describing the position of Buccleuch Place, and not the location of the plaque within BP.
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posted by [identity profile] cmlc.livejournal.com at 12:06pm on 14/01/2008
AI had certainly expanded from Hope Park Square by then I think, but it still had a presence there in the 80s because that's where the AI library was in the early 80s, and various people had offices there.
AI moved into more and more of FH progressively I think - when they started there in the ?70s the army still had quite a lot of the building I think, but AI expanded and the army contracted over the years. Possibly in 96 AI had only just taken over the complete building. Then again some of our staff have been here over 40 years and probably do remember decades-old things as relatively recent events!
I don't know if there was an intermediate location though. I don't *think* so but I'm not sure.
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