has over 800 students taking a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses and 60 full-time academic staff.

Examples of recent research include Protégé, Utopia Documents, myGrid, Taverna workbench, myExperiment, Open PHACTS.

Academic staff include Jon Shapiro (group leader),[14] Gavin Brown, Ke Chen, Richard Neville[15] and Xiaojun Zeng.

The NEST group is housed in an integrated suite of staff offices, general-purpose laboratory space and class 100/1000 cleanrooms and is a founder member of the Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology where the ground-breaking, Nobel Prize–winning work on graphene by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov was undertaken.

Academic staff members include Professor John Keane,[18] Kung-Kiu Lau, Liping Zhao and Graham Riley.

The group also performs research into Natural Language Processing (NLP) and hosts the National Centre for Text Mining.

[19] The Advanced Interfaces Group (AIG)[21] researches virtual environments, collaborative visualization systems, and computer vision.

The group is led by Steve Pettifer[22] and includes academic staff Aphrodite Galata, Toby Howard (Honorary Reader), Tim Morris.

It was run by The school has its roots in the Computer Group of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Victoria University of Manchester.

The Computer Group was established following Freddie Williams's move to the Electrical Engineering Department in 1946.