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HCI2005 takes place in Edinburgh, the city where 400 years ago John Napier invented logarithms, the decimal point and, arguably, information technology. 250 years ago, during the Edinburgh Enlightenment Hume, Smith and Fergusson introduced the concepts of Social Sciences that are so fundamental to HCI.
The UNESCO World City of Literature is one of the world's most beautiful cities On 4th Sept 2005, the Firework Concert at Edinburgh Castle closed yet another record-breaking festival, which featured thousands of shows, tens of thousands of performers, and millions of tickets-stubs. But while you’re at HCI2005 you'll see the afterechoes of the festival everywhere – the art galleries in particular have world-class exhibitions that will remain for a few weeks, for example the lauded Gauguin Vision exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland.
But Edinburgh is much more than the castle, the festival, Princes Street, the Royal Mile, Murrayfield and two occasionally successful football teams. You have the entire network of the city's bus system to play with while you are here. If the weather's sunny, take a trip to the seaside – Portobello, Edinburgh's beach resort, is around 15 mins on the No 26 (and several other routes) from Haymarket. The Meadows is a huge city-centre park, where hundreds of thousands people gathered to Make Poverty History in July, and celebrate Fringe Sunday in August. Adjacent, and close to Napier's Merchiston Campus, is Bruntsfield Links – with its free 36-hole pitch and putt course, one of the older golf courses in the world. (There are also dozens of other golf courses around the city, most open to the public). Scotland's national tennis facility is a short walk from the venue, while various buses from Haymarket take you to the olympic-sized Royal Commonwealth Pool.
Edinburgh's museums and visitor attractions include the multimedia experience of Our Dynamic Earth, opposite the Scottish Parliament and Holyrood Palace, and the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Zoo (west of the city centre) and the Botanic Gardens (to the north). You are invited to join us in Edinburgh for what promises to be an exciting event where we will explore the bigger picture!
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The Craiglockhart Campus of Napier University is famed for housing the recuperation of the First World War Poets, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, as commemorated in Pat Barker’s book Regeneration. The campus has recently re-opened after a £25m re-development preserving the original building, while adding modern teaching and conference facilities.
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