| Postal Address: | Institute of Informatics |
| 6701 Szeged, Hungary, P. O. Box 652. | |
| Telephone: | +36 62 546396 |
| Fax: | +36 62 546397 |
| E-mail: | depart@inf.u-szeged.hu |
Systematic education in computer science was launched within the Mathematical Institute at the end of the 1950's by László Kalmár. The Institute of Informatics was founded as an independent unit in 1990.
The head of the Institute: Prof. Zoltán Fülöp
Deputies: Dr. Éva Gombás (student affairs) and Dr. Károly Dévényi (management)
The Institute consists of six departments and a research group:
Department of Computational Optimization, head: Prof. Tibor Csendes
Department of Computer Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, head: Dr. Csanád Imreh
Department of Foundations of Computer Science, head: Prof. Zoltán Ésik
Department of Image Processing and Computer Graphics, head: Dr. Zoltán Kató
Department of Software Engineering, head: Prof. Tibor Gyimóthy
Department of Technical Informatics, acting head: Dr. Zoltán Gingl
Research Group on Artificial Intelligence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, head: Prof. János Csirik
The main activities of the institute are the education and research of modern informatics and computer science knowledge.