Max Planck Institute for Informatics
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| Abbreviation | MPI-INF |
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| Formation | 1993 |
| Type | research institute |
| Headquarters | Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany |
| Website | www |
The Max Planck Institute for Informatics (German: Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, abbreviated MPI-INF or MPII) is a research institute in computer science with a focus on algorithms and their applications in a broad sense. It hosts fundamental research (algorithms and complexity, programming logics) as well a research for various application domains (computer graphics, geometric computation, constraint solving, computational biology). It is part of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany's largest publicly funded body for foundation research.
Research departments[]
As of early 2018 the institute had five directors, called scientific members. These are:
- Kurt Mehlhorn - algorithms and complexity department
- Bernt Schiele - computer vision and multimodal computing department
- Thomas Lengauer - computational biology and applied algorithmics department
- Anja Feldmann - Internet architecture department
- Hans-Peter Seidel - computer graphics department
- Gerhard Weikum - databases and information systems department
In addition to the departments, the institute hosts the research group on automation of logic, lead by . The programming logics department was, until his death in 2004, led by Harald Ganzinger.[1] The independent research group on computational genomics and epidemiology was led by .
The institute, along with the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the entire Computer Science department of Saarland University, is involved in the Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum für Informatik.
The International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS) is the graduate school of the MPII and the MPI-SWS. It was founded in 2000 and offers a fully funded PhD-Program in cooperation with Saarland University. Dean is Gerhard Weikum.
See also[]
- Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
- YAGO (database) (developed at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science)
References[]
External links[]
- Max Planck Institute for Informatics Homepage
- International Meeting Place and Research Centre for Computer Science in Dagstuhl Castle
- International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science
Coordinates: 49°15′28″N 7°2′44″E / 49.25778°N 7.04556°E
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