Mihajlo Pupin Institute ( sr, Институт Михајло Пупин, Institut Mihajlo Pupin) is an institute based in
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...
, Serbia. It is named after
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin and is part of the
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia.
Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...
.
It is notable for manufacturing numerous
computer
A computer is a machine that can be programmed to Execution (computing), carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as C ...
systems used in
SFR Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yug ...
- especially early
CER and later
TIM line of computers.
Departments
The institute is well known in wide range of fields. In the science community, it is known for early work in
humanoid robot
A humanoid robot is a robot resembling the human body in shape. The design may be for functional purposes, such as interacting with human tools and environments, for experimental purposes, such as the study of bipedal locomotion, or for other pur ...
ics.
The institute and companies owned by it compete in fields such as:
* System integration and networking,
* Information systems for government and industry, Internet/Intranet IS
* E-commerce, e-government applications
* Decision support systems, expert systems, intelligent Internet applications,
* Power systems control, supervision and optimization
* Process control and supervision,
* Traffic control, GPS
* Telecommunications
* Digital signal processing
* Simulators, training aids, specialised H/S systems
* Image processing
* Real-time systems (large scale and embedded)
* Turn-key engineering solutions
* Robotics
Subsidiaries
* IMP-Automatika d.o.o. Belgrade
* IMP-Računarski sistemi d.o.o. Belgrade
* IMP-Telekomunikacije d.o.o. Belgrade
* Idvorski laboratorije d.o.o. Belgrade
* IMP-Piezotehnologija d.o.o. Belgrade
* IMP-Poslovne usluge d.o.o. Belgrade
* IMP-Naučnotehnološki park d.o.o. Belgrade
See also
*
CER Computers
*
HRS-100 computer
*
TIM-100 and
TIM-011
*
Michael I. Pupin
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin ( sr-Cyrl, Михајло Идворски Пупин, ; 4 October 1858Although Pupin's birth year is sometimes given as 1854 (and Serbia and Montenegro issued a postage stamp in 2004 to commemorate the 150th anniversary o ...
-
Serbian scientist after whom this institute is named.
*
History of computer hardware in the SFRY
*
Rajko Tomović
Rajko Tomović (1919–2001) was a Serbs, Serbian and Yugoslavia, Yugoslav scientist, who developed research programs in robotics, medical information technologies, information technology, biomedical engineering, rehabilitation engineering, arti ...
*
Miomir Vukobratović
Miomir Vukobratović ( sr-cyr, Миомир Вукобратовић) (December 24, 1931 – March 11, 2012) was a Serbian mechanical engineer and pioneer in humanoid robots. His major interest were in the development of efficient modeling an ...
References
External links
*
1946 establishments in Serbia
Defense companies of Serbia
Economy of Belgrade
Science and technology in Serbia
University of Belgrade
Zvezdara
{{Serbia-company-stub