The Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, or LIP6, the computer science laboratory of Pierre & Marie Curie University (UPMC), is a joint research laboratory of UPMC and CNRS, the French national research organization. It was founded in January, 1997, with the fusion of three smaller laboratories: LAFORIA, LITP, and MASI. Employing over 150 permanent professors and research scientists, LIP6 is one of the largest computer science laboratories in France.

Research activities

LIP6's research activities are organized around five general areas of research:

• Embedded systems
• Scientific computation
• Networking and Distributed systems
• Databases and Machine learning
• Decision making and Optimization

See also

• Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6. official website (English version). Retrieved on 2006-05-25..
• Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6. official website. Retrieved on 2006-05-25..