The Institute for Parallel Processing (IPP) is one of the leading scientific institutions in the area of Mathematical Sciences of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). IPP carries out fundamental and applied research mainly in the fields of Computer Science and Communication Technologies. The European Commission projects entrusted to it demonstrate its high quality research work. For the periods 2001-2004 and 2005-2007 IPP has been chosen as Bulgarian IST Centre of Competence in 21 Century .
Besides the BAS planned research activities, IPP performs scientific research by national and international contracts, education of PhD and MSc students, qualification courses for specialists, young researchers and students. It has a leading role in organizing prestigious scientific events in different directions of Computer Science and Communication Technologies.
In 1994, the Institute succeeded in proving the first Internet-connection in Bulgaria to the European academic research network (EARN) and still continues to manage and support the main node of the Bulgarian academic network. The IPP researchers represent Bulgaria in different EC programs and actively participate in NATO scientific panels. They are experts and evaluators both in different national programs and in project call of EC and NATO.
All this assets IPP as a leading Bulgarian scientific organization, internationally recognized for its achievements in the fields of Computer Science and Communication Technologies and their applications. IPP scientists represent Bulgaria in a number of international organizations and their committees as the American Mathematical Society (AMS), British Computer Society (BCS), International Association of Universities (IAU), International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), International Association for Mathematics and Computer Simulation (IMACS), Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), European Mathematical Society (EMSW), Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Armed Forces Communications and Electronic Association (AFCEA), etc.