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 Province of Pisa
The province of Pisa () is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Pisa. With an area of and a total population of 421,642 (), it is the second most populous and fifth largest province of Tuscany. It is subdivided i ...
about 5 km from
San Giuliano Terme.
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, former President of CNR and former
rector of the
University of Pisa
The University of Pisa (, UniPi) is a public university, public research university in Pisa, Italy. Founded in 1343, it is one of the oldest universities in Europe. Together with Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Sant'Anna School of Advanced S ...
, 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
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...
and
Open Science
Open science is the movement to make scientific research (including publications, data, physical samples, and software) and its dissemination accessible to all levels of society, amateur or professional. Open science is transparent and accessib ...
policies, with the design and implementation of more than thirty software packages and tools, like, for example, the open source molecular visualization software
QuteMol
QuteMol is an open-source, interactive, molecular visualization system that was based on advanced rendering techniques that make possible to have for the first time a set of innovative visualization modalities in an interactive real-time applicatio ...
, 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 mesh ...
, the
gCube system for developing
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 ...
s.
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 ...
s including
D4Science 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 Europe ...
.
It supports and promotes the principles of
Open Access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...
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