It's a little more complicated than I made it sound above. 50% of my curriculum was courses from CS department, the other 50% courses from the AI department. It

It's a little more complicated than I made it sound above. 50% of my curriculum was courses from CS department, the other 50% courses from the AI department. It was actually possible to do AI without doing CS at all, though. There were AI and Linguistics, and AI and Phycology degrees, for example. There was basically no crossover in languages used in the courses taught by the two departments. CS was mostly Java with some C++ and C. AI was Matlab, Prolog, a little bit of Python for NLP, and few other esoteric things. Some AI-side courses involved basically no programming at all ("Introduction to Cognitive Science" springs to mind). That said: some of the AI students who didn't have to take any CS courses chose not to take the suggested ones... then had a really hard time in a few of the later courses. Computer Vision was brutal for them. The situation is slightly different now. Edinburgh has a foundational "Informatics" (being the combination of CS, AI and Cognitive Science) curriculum. Students in those disciplines start with that, and then fully specialize in the later years of the course. As a more or less completely unrelated side note: Sethu Vijayakumar, one of the judges for the last couple of seasons of Robot Wars UK, was my dissertation examiner.