Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier
The Montpellier Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics, and Microelectronics ("Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier", LIRMM) is a cross-faculty research entity of the University of Montpellier and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). The spectrum of research activities covered by the LIRMM ranges from circuit design, to modeling of complex agent-based systems, algorithmic studies, bio-computing, human-computer interfaces, and robotics. These activities are conducted mainly within the three scientific research departments: Department of Robotics. The Robotics department deals with problems of synthesis, supervision and  management of complex dynamic systems (robots, robot / live interface), and also navigation, location and piloting of autonomous vehicles present or remote, or Others for analysis, coding and image processing. One of the particularities of the LIRMM is that theory, tools, experiments and applications are present in all its fields of scientific competence. This department has gained immense reputation in academic and industrial fraternity because of its strong industrial tie ups and groundbreaking products delivered over the years. Some famous robots that rolled out of this department are BRIGIT™ (Medtech (robotic surgery)) and Quattro (Adept Technology). Department of Microelectronics. The  Microelectronics Department conducts cutting-edge research in the areas of design and testing of integrated systems and microsystems, with an emphasis on architectural, modeling and methodological aspects. Department of Informatics. The themes of the Computer Science department range from the boundaries of mathematics to applied research: graphical algorithms, bioinformatics, cryptography, networks, databases and information systems (data integration, data mining, maintaining coherence) (Programming languages, objects, components, models), artificial intelligence (learning, constraints, knowledge representation, multi-agent systems), human-machine interaction (natural language, visualization, semantic web and e-learning). Notable people. 1. François Pierrot 2. Abderrahmane Kheddar Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de