The "Alessandro Faedo" Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (''Institute of Information Science and Technologies'') is an institute of the
Italian National Research Council (CNR). The institute is located in the CNR research area in the
Ghezzano
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about 5 km from
San Giuliano Terme
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Main sights
The area of the Pisa hills was already an attraction for enlight ...
.
The institute was founded in 2002 as a merge of two previous CNR institutes: Istituto CNUCE and Istituto di Elaborazione dell’Informazione (IEI).
The institute is named in honor of
Alessandro Faedo
Alessandro Faedo (18 November 1913 – 15 June 2001) (also known as Alessandro Carlo Faedo or Sandro Faedo) was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo. He is known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Gal ...
, former President of CNR and former
rector
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*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of the
University of Pisa
The University of Pisa ( it, Università di Pisa, UniPi), officially founded in 1343, is one of the oldest universities in Europe.
History
The Origins
The University of Pisa was officially founded in 1343, although various scholars place ...
, for his important contributions to the development of Computer Science in Italy. The mission of the institute is ''producing scientific excellence and playing an active role in technology transfer'' in the field of Computer Science.
In 2022 the research staff of the institute counts more than 120 researchers and a total staff (including PhD students and fellows) of around 230.
Since 1 April 2019 the ISTI director is Roberto Scopigno.
ISTI is affiliated to the CNR Dept. of Engineering, Information, Communication, Energy and Transportation Technologies (DIITET).
The main aim of ISTI-CNR is to advance science in the domain of computing and related technologies. ISTI collaborates with many universities and research institutions at both national and international levels. Collaborations are often related to specific research projects and consortiums. The Institute also has a very solid expertise and reputation in the design and deployment of CS infrastructures and in technology transfer activities oriented towards industry or the public administration. In addition, ISTI is strongly involved in didactics, at bachelor, masters and PhD levels. Many ISTI researchers hold courses or seminars in national universities or abroad.
The institute is organized in six major research themes and the subsequent 13 research laboratories:
; Networking
;
Wireless Networks Laboratory (WN)
; Software
;
Formal Methods and Tools Laboratory (FMT);
Software Engineering and Dependable Computing Laboratory (SEDC);
System and Software Evaluation Center (SSE)
; Knowledge
;
Artificial Intelligence for Media and Humanities Laboratory (AIMH);
Human Interfaces in Information Systems Laboratory (HIIS);
Infrastructures for Science Laboratory (InfraScience);
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory (KDD)
; High Performance Computing
;
High Performance Computing Laboratory (HPC)
; Visual
;
Signals and Images Laboratory (SI);
Visual Computing Laboratory (VC)
; Flight and Structural Mechanic
;
Mechanics of Materials and Structures Laboratory (MMS);
Space Flight Dynamics Laboratory (SFD)
ISTI is intensively contributing to Open Source and Open Science policies, with the design and implementation of more than thirty software packages and tools, like, for example, the open source molecular visualization software
QuteMol
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and the 3D mesh processing system
MeshLab
MeshLab is a 3D mesh processing software system that is oriented to the management and processing of unstructured large meshes and provides a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering, and converting these kinds of meshes ...
.
It is leading the development and operation of
Data infrastructure A data infrastructure is a digital infrastructure promoting data sharing and consumption.
Similarly to other infrastructures, it is a structure needed for the operation of a society as well as the services and facilities necessary for an economy t ...
s including
D4Science
D4Science is an organisation operating a Data Infrastructure offering a rich array of services by community-driven virtual research environments.
In particular, it supports communities of practice willing to implement open science practices.
Th ...
and
OpenAIRE
The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, also called Framework Programmes or abbreviated FP1 to FP9, are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the Europea ...
.
It supports and promotes the principles of
Open Access
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and is making available its scientific production by its own Institutional Repository.
References
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Computer science institutes in Italy
Scientific organisations based in Italy
2002 establishments in Italy
Scientific organizations established in 2002