Edinburgh Napier University
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Institute for Informatics & Digital Innovation
Edinburgh Napier University
Merchiston Campus
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Contact Name: Tom McEwan (Senior Lecturer)
Phone: 0131 455 2700
Fax: 0131 455 2727
Email: t.mcewan@napier.ac.uk
Website: iidi.napier.ac.uk
Employees: Approx 100 academics and researchers in Informatics
Organisation Description
Information technology plays a vital role in every area of today’s industry, commerce and lifestyle. From online shopping or the applications on our mobile phones, to the systems behind our healthcare or our financial services, it impacts on every aspect of our daily lives.
At the Institute for Informatics & Digital Innovation we are dedicated to helping you and your organisation deal with new digital challenges and opportunities as they arise. We can help you to look ahead and shape our digital future.
We work across every field of computer technology from sensors and mobile networks to data intensive applications requiring intelligent processing and filtering. We can help you explore not just the technology but how people interact with the technology and how it impacts on society.
Awards
TCS2002 knowledge transfer with Memory Corp/Digmedia
KTP2003 knowledge transfer with 7-Layer
KTP2004 knowledge transfer with Canan Ltd
Services
Contract Research
Knowledge Transfer and Expertise Sharing
CPD (Continual Professional Development) courses in programming, databases, web authoring, interaction design and e-commerce.
Part-time degrees with advanced entry for HND or equivalent
Postgraduate qualifications – part-time and one-year full-time
Markets
Artificial Immune Systems
Biodiversity Informatics
Combinatorial Optimisation
Component and Service Based Software Reuse
Digital Media
e-Health
Evolutionary Computing
Forensic/Security Framework
Group Communications
Information Visualisation
International Teledemocracy Centre
Knowledge bases and Document Management
Mobile Agents
Mobile IP
Network Emulators
Pedestrian Behaviour
Pervasive Adaptation
Presence
Risk Analysis in e-Crime