CRS4, also known as Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (
Italian: Centro di Ricerca, Sviluppo e Studi Superiori in Sardegna), is an interdisciplinary research center, founded by the
Sardinia Autonomous Region on November 30, 1990. Since 2003, the center is located in the
Technology Park of Sardinia, in the
Comune
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of
Pula
Pula, also known as Pola, is the largest city in Istria County, west Croatia, and the List of cities and towns in Croatia, seventh-largest city in the country, situated at the southern tip of the Istria, Istrian peninsula in western Croatia, wi ...
. Several companies and research groups have chosen to establish their activities on this campus, giving rise to a thriving R&D community.
CRS4 is a private research center, but its shareholder is a regional agency:
Sardegna Ricerche.
The center, initially headed by the
Nobel Prize
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in
Physics
Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...
Carlo Rubbia (1990 to 1999), has had the following Presidents:
Nicola Cabibbo (2000 to 2003),
Carlo Rubbia (2003 to 2006), Paolo Zanella (2006 to 2014), Luigi Filippini (2014 to 2017), Annalisa Bonfiglio (2017 to 2020)
Giacomo Cao Sole Administrator (2020).
A young graduate student, Antonio Ticca, during his stage at CRS4 made the first Italian
Website
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(www.crs4.it) in August 1993 (this is the real date, not the one cited in the press article), and with Francesco Ruggiero collaborated to the creation of the first European web newspaper in 1994 (
L'Unione Sarda) and to one of the first and largest internet providers (
Video On Line). In this sense CRS4 has been crucial for the development of the
Internet
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and
Web
Web most often refers to:
* Spider web, a silken structure created by the animal
* World Wide Web or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system
Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to:
Computing
* WEB, a literate programming system created by ...
in Sardinia and Italy.
[Luca Ferrucci and Daniele Porchedd]
"The ICT in the Cagliari area: Start up and evolution"
, 2003 (in english)
Today about 150 researchers are working at CRS4 and the 6 main strategic research sectors are:
Biosciences
Computational Infrastructure and Smart ProjectsDigital Technologies for AerospaceHPC for Energy and EnvironmentICT - Information SocietyVisual and Data-Intensive Computing
CRS4 is one of the major Italian Computing Centers and is equipped with the first Genotyping and massive
DNA Sequencing Platformin Italy
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Notes
External links
Sardegna Ricerche(in English)
CRS4(in English and Italian)
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Scientific research foundations
Sardinia