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
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. 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
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Carlo Rubbia (1990 to 1999), has had the following Presidents:
Nicola Cabibbo
Nicola Cabibbo (10 April 1935 – 16 August 2010) was an Italian physicist, best known for his work on the weak interaction.
Life
Cabibbo, son of a Sicilian lawyer, was born in Rome. He graduated in theoretical physics at the Università di Rom ...
(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
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). In this sense CRS4 has been crucial for the development of the
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a ''internetworking, network of networks'' that consists ...
and
Web 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:
BiosciencesComputational 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