Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6
# Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6

The LIP6, the computer science laboratory of Sorbonne University's Faculty of Science and Engineering is a joint research laboratory of Sorbonne University and CNRS, the French national research organization. The current name comes from the acronym of its historical name, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6. 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
