Mihajlo Pupin Institute ( sr, Институт Михајло Пупин, Institut Mihajlo Pupin) is an institute based in
Belgrade
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, Serbia. It is named after
Mihajlo Idvorski 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 ...
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-ba ...
.
It is notable for manufacturing numerous
computer
A computer is a machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations ( computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These prog ...
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 Yu ...
- 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 pu ...
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
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CER Computers
CER ( sh-Latn, Cifarski Elektronski Računar, lit=Digital Electronic Computer) was a series of early computers (based on vacuum tubes and transistors) developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute in Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s.
Models:
* CER-10 - 1 ...
*
HRS-100 computer
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TIM-100
The TIM-100 was a PTT teller microcomputer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute ( Serbia) in 1985 (Ref.lit. #1). It was based on the Intel microprocessors types 80x86 and VLSI circuitry. RAM had capacity max.8MB, and the external memory were ...
and
TIM-011
TIM 011 is an educational or personal computer for school microcomputer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute of Serbia in 1987. There were about 1200 TIM-011 computers in Serbian schools in the starting from 1987 and in 1990s.
It were based ...
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Michael I. Pupin -
Serbian
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* someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe
* someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people
* Serbian language
* Serbian names
See also
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* Old Serbian (disambiguation ...
scientist after whom this institute is named.
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History of computer hardware in the SFRY The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) was a socialist country that existed in the second half of the 20th century. Being socialist meant that strict technology import rules and regulations shaped the development of computer history in ...
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Rajko Tomović
Rajko Tomović (1919–2001) was a Serbian and Yugoslav scientist, who developed research programs in robotics, medical information technology, biomedical engineering, rehabilitation engineering, artificial organs, and other disciplines. He ...
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Miomir Vukobratović
References
External links
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1946 establishments in Serbia
Defense companies of Serbia
Economy of Belgrade
Science and technology in Serbia
University of Belgrade
Zvezdara
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