Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOS, or ISCAS, ) is one of institutes that

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research i ...

(CAS) established. It was established on March 1, 1985. It's on the 4th

Zhongguancun Zhongguancun ( Chinese: 中关村) is a major technology hub in the Haidian District, Beijing, China. Zhongguancun occupies a band between the northwestern Third Ring Road and the northwestern Fourth Ring Road in the northwestern part of Bei ...

South Fourth Street,

Haidian District Haidian () is a northwest urban district of Beijing, bordering Xicheng, Beijing, Xicheng and Fengtai, Beijing, Fengtai. It is in area, making it the second-largest district in urban Beijing area (after Chaoyang, Beijing, Chaoyang), and is home ...

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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. There are branches in

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Qingdao Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to G ...

and

Guiyang Guiyang; Mandarin pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, alternatively as Kweiyang is the capital of Guizhou, Guizhou province in China. It is centrally located within the province, on the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, eastern part of the Yun ...

. Its research areas are

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

theory and application, fundamental software technology and system structure, the Internet

information processing In cognitive psychology, information processing is an approach to the goal of understanding human thinking that treats cognition as essentially Computing, computational in nature, with the mind being the ''software'' and the brain being the ''hard ...

theory, methods and technology, as well as the integrated information system technology. There are five departments in it, such as the General Division, Basic Research Division, Hi-Tech Research Division, Applied Research Division and Development Division. There are also

state key laboratories The State Key Laboratories () is a critical grouping of university and enterprise research institutions and laboratories receiving funding, administrative support and developmental guidance from the central government of China. These labs often sp ...

and

national engineering research centers National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...

. They are

State Key Laboratory of Computer Science State most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a ...

National Engineering Research Center of Fundamental Software National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...

Science and Technology on Integrated Information System Laboratory Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

. Software academic journals hosted by ISCAS are ''

Journal of Software A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of personal secretive thoughts and as open book to personal therapy or used to feel connected to onesel ...

'', ''

Journal of Chinese Information Processing ''Journal of Chinese Information Processing'' () is the journal of Chinese Information Processing Society of China. It was founded in 1986 and has been focused on publishing academic papers on the basic theory and applied technology of Chinese i ...

'' and '' Computer Systems Applications''.

External links

* http://english.is.cas.cn/ {{coord missing, Beijing Research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Software industry 1985 establishments in China Education in Beijing

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