As well as undertaking research in algorithms and complexity, ACiD contributed widely within theoretical computer science, often at the boundary with discrete mathematics. There were 14 members of Computer Science staff in ACiD along with research associates, PhD students, and members of staff from Mathematics.
ACiD was one of the five founding sites of the EPSRC network grant AlgoUK: Algorithms and Complexity in the UK and regularly hosted international conferences and workshops. Since its formation in 2004, ACiD has hosted over 180 visits of researchers from around the world and its members were active internationally, regularly contributing to and organising meetings at international research centres such as BIRS, Dagstuhl, Lorentz Center, and Oberwolfach, for example. ACiD hosted a weekly seminar series in term time.
ICG was concerned with methods for representing, processing, communicating, and reasoning about information, and the role of the human, in both natural and engineered computing systems. ICG had 20 staff members and 45 PhD students with wide-spanning research interests and overlapping strengths in artificial intelligence, machine learning (deep and shallow), data analytics, and novel applied research.
They had strong industry connections (e.g., Microsoft, NVidia, Boots, P&G, Dyson) and ICG generated spin-offs (e.g. Intogral) and was supported in its research by a modern Nvidia CUDA GPU cluster. ICG received funding from industry, RCUK, and others (e.g. IOC). Its main research areas included image processing, data science, natural language processing, adaptive technologies, human-centred computing, health informatics, software engineering, software design, and high-performance and scientific computing.
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