Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Max Planck Institute for Informatics

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Abbreviation	MPI-INF or MPII
Formation	1988; 36 years ago (1988)[1]
Type	Research institute
Headquarters	Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
Website	www.mpi-inf.mpg.de

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).

Founded November 1988 by the Max Planck Society, Germany's largest publicly funded body for foundation research, MPII is located on the campus of Saarland University.