Birkbeck College (BBK)

Birkbeck College (BBK) is a world-class research and teaching institution, a vibrant centre of academic excellence and London’s only specialist provider of evening higher education. Recognised as a global elite university, Birkbeck is ranked among the top 150 universities in the world and the top 25 in the UK (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011). Birkbeck is engaged in conducting research that is actively pushing back the boundaries of the world’s knowledge across the disciplines. The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Birkbeck is one of the first computer science departments world-wide, having celebrated our 50th anniversary in 2007. Our world-class research activity informs our teaching and our interactions with business, public and third-sector organisations. The Department brings together research and teaching expertise related to our major research activities in Information Management and Web Technologies, Computational Intelligence, and Information Systems; in particular, the Department is a long-established centre of expertise in intelligent systems and computational intelligence.

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