Informatics Murder Mystery
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Informatics Forum
10 Crichton Street G03 Edinburgh EH8 9AB United KingdomDescription
The lifeless body of Professor Boddy has been found in the Informatics Forum. Known for his backstabbing and intolerable arrogance, Prof Boddy was loathed by many. He was also a brilliant scientist with a lifelong interest in creating a sentient AI - and just before his untimely death, he planned to reveal to the world his long-awaited breakthrough: EDNA, the superintelligence.
Who killed Professor Boddy? Was it a reverend who thinks AI is evil? Or maybe one of his former colleagues and competitors - Prof Stuart Plumington? Or maybe an evil investor from Venture Capital Corp?
How did the Professor die? Maybe he choked on a Lego figurine hidden in a brownie? Or maybe he was killed with a Coding for Dummies book?
Help Police Scotland solve this murder mystery!
We invite teams of two to play, but if you don't have a pair - book one ticket and we will pair you up with another single player on the day. You will be solving the mystery by interacting with your fellow players and eliminating suspects, weapons, and locations of the murder as you go. The first team to discover the solution wins the game.
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Edinburgh’s School of Informatics is the largest academic centre of its kind in Europe and the UK’s most successful informatics research institution. We have consistently been a leader in the field since the 1960s, when our first Professor of Computer Science was appointed and the Department of Artificial Intelligence was founded. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 ranked us first in the UK for computer science and informatics. We produce more world leading and internationally excellent research in this field than any other UK university. We're also ranked 14th for Computer Science in the THES Rankings by Subject 2018. Our size and strength support unparalleled breadth in our taught courses, which are consistently ranked excellent in external assessments.
Our students rate us highly too. Members of staff are proud to have received EUSA Teaching Awards on the basis of student nominations and votes. We provide outstanding facilities. Computer laboratories are available to all Informatics students 24 hours a day. Our city centre premises include both teaching and research centres.
We lead the way in an exciting discipline that is central to a new enlightenment in scholarship and learning. Informatics is critical to the development of science, technology, culture and society. Our academics include Fellows of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Academy of Engineering. We boast recent winners of the most prestigious awards in the field, including the Herbrand Award, the Blaise Pascal Medal and the Yangtze River Scholar award.
Graduates from our programmes enjoy career success in a wide array of roles that shape our society, from developing the latest mobile technology to creating intelligent infrastructure. Many go on to work as project managers, researchers, software developers and consultants in the commercial sector (at firms such as Google, Amazon, Skyscanner or Adobe) or take up academic posts, often in Russell Group and US research universities such as MIT and Stanford. Some of our graduates have found success through start-up companies.
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