University of Edinburgh
<body, education> A university in the centre of Scotland's capital. The
University of Edinburgh has been promoting and setting standards in education
for over 400 years. Granted its Royal Charter in 1582 by James VI, the son of
Mary Queen of Scots, the University was founded the following year by the Town
Council of Edinburgh, making it the first post-Reformation university in
Scotland, and the first civic university to be established in the British Isles.
Known in its early years as King James College, or the Tounis (Town's) College,
the University soon established itself internationally, and by the 18th century
Edinburgh was a leading centre of the European Enlightenment and one of the
continent's principal universities. The University's close relationship with the
city in which it is based, coupled with a forward-looking, international
perspective, has kept Edinburgh at the forefront of new research and teaching
developments whilst enabling it to retain a uniquely Scottish character.
Edinburgh's academics are at the forefront of developments in the study and
application of languages, medicine, micro-electronics, biotechnology,
computer-based disciplines and many other subjects. Edinburgh's standing as a
world centre for research is further enhanced by the presence on and around
University precincts of many independently-funded, but closely linked, national
research institutes
Home.
Address: Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland EH8 9YL, UK.
Telephone: +44 (131) 650 1000.
See also ABSET, ABSYS, Alice, ASL+, Baroque, C++Linda, Cogent Prolog, COWSEL,
Echidna, Edinburgh Prolog, Edinburgh SML, EdML, ELLIS, ELSIE, ESLPDPRO, Extended
ML, Hope, IMP, LCF, Lisp-Linda, Marseille Prolog, metalanguage, MIKE, ML, ML
Kit, ML-Linda, Multipop-68, Nuprl, Oblog, paraML, Pascal-Linda, POP-1, POP-2,
POPLER, Prolog, Prolog-2, Prolog-Linda, Scheme-Linda, Skel-ML, Standard ML,
Sticks&Stones, supercombinators, SWI-Prolog, tail recursion modulo cons, WPOP.
(1995-12-29)
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