Julian Bradfield
Email: jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk (on general University of Edinburgh
business)
lfcs-director (at) inf.ed.ac.uk (on LFCS business)
jcb@julianbradfield.org (other academic matters)
GnuPG public key (for routine matters))
Phone: +44 131 650 5998
- Informatics Forum
- 10 Crichton St
- EDINBURGH
- EH8 9AB
- United Kingdom
My UoE office is IF 4.07.
I am Reader in Computer Science in the
School of Informatics at the University of
Edinburgh. My first degree was in Mathematics, from Cambridge
(B.A. 1985, M.A. 1988),
and after doing the conversion Diploma in Computer Science, I
came to Edinburgh for my Ph.D. (awarded 1991). After completing this, I was a
postdoc for a couple of years, and since 1992 I've been
on the teaching staff.
Research
If you're interested in my research, please go to my
research page.
I am interested in supervising Ph.D. study in any of several areas:
concurrency, modal and temporal logics, applications of set theory to
computer science, application of concurrency to
phonology. If you're interested in any of these, contact me, and see
the Informatics
Postgraduate pages for information about our postgraduate
programme and the application procedure.
Undergraduate Internships:
The School no longer runs any undergraduate intern programme.
Undergraduate/M.Sc. Teaching
I am currently teaching Informatics 1 - Introduction
to Computation (with Don Sannella).
The slides from the taster lecture on Fri 12 April 2024 are here,
with free bonus slides! edi-intro.pdf.
Postgraduate/research courses
The materials for the ESSLLI2012 course on Formal and Computational
Approaches to Phonology are here: ESSLLI2012.
Administration
Director of LFCS.
CSL'02
If you're
looking for archived information on CSL'02, the CSL'02 home page is still available.
TolkLang
If you're looking for the TolkLang archive, please go to the TolkLang home page.
Mah-Jong
If you're looking for my Mah-Jong programs, please go to my personal site.
Software
The various bits of software I've written (and let loose) over the
years are here.
Printed Manuals
We all use lots of software, for making presentations if nothing
else. Some of it is so complex that the manuals are huge, and a
challenge to read on screen. So sometimes I just want hard-copy. The
manuals are mostly too big to print at the office, and who wants to
manually bind a 400-page manual? But now in these days of
print-on-demand, it's relatively straightforward to turn any manual
into a decent quality and cheap book. So now I do this with manuals I
would once have printed. Having made the once-off effort, anybody else
can then order the books too, so why not make them available?
If you want to look at my list of manuals, go to my manuals page.