In response to a colleague’s request for pointers to early AI achievements in Edinburgh I provided a few links and resources that may be useful. This blog posts lists some of them…
We carefully preserved an archive of project materials and documents from all of the previous AIAI’s work over a period of four decades (in Informatucs Forum room IF2.22 in the now enlarged AIAI and formally looked after by its director, currently Jacques Fleuriot)… https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/resources/
I have over the years also tried to preserve some of the history, as did Jim Howe.. these links might be relevant…
Jim Howe’s history of AI at Edinburgh… https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/about/AIhistory.html
My list of the various AI groups since 1963…
https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/2019/10/30/artificial-intelligence-and-its-applications-institute/
Donald and others have given a number of talks on early AI history and pioneering AI work at Edinburgh and in the UK… https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/events.html
https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/events/ccs2002/ (AI – Recollections if the Pioneers)
Some specific deployed applications of AI technology created by AIAI are listed via the menu down the left hand side if this page at… https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/achievements.html
Freddy Robot project summary page… https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/freddy/
My owns summary of AI planning work my group has been involved in over 5 decades… also now preserved on GitHub and in its “Arctic Code Vault“… https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/
We also created the AI Planning MOOC to preserve a range of material, demonstrations, code and interviews… https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/ooc/
There are also a few things going on here just now that could be relevant… as its the 60th anniversary of Donald setting up the first AI group at Edinburgh (EPU)… https://www.ed.ac.uk/c/60-years-computer-science-ai