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The '''Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science''' (LFCS) is a research institute within the [[University of Edinburgh School of Informatics|School of Informatics]] at the [[University of Edinburgh]], in [[Scotland]]. It was founded in [[1987]] by [[Rod Burstall]], [[Robin Milner]], [[Gordon Plotkin]] and [[Matthew Hennessy]]<ref>{{cite web|title=LFCS 30 year anniversary|url=https://events.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs30/|website=LFCS30|accessdate=29 April 2016}}</ref>. It is a community of theoretical [[computer scientist]]s with interests in [[Concurrency (computer science)|concurrency]], [[semantics (computer science)|semantics]], [[category theory|categories]], [[algebra]], [[type theory|types]], [[formal logic|logic]], [[algorithm]]s, [[computational complexity theory|complexity]], [[database theory|databases]] and modelling.<ref>{{cite web|title=Welcome to LFCS|url=http://www.lfcs.ed.ac.uk|website=LFCS home page|accessdate=29 April 2016}}</ref>

==References==