Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione

The "Alessandro Faedo" Institute of Information Science and Technologies (in Italian, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione) is an institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR).[1] The institute is located in the CNR Research Area of Pisa. The institute was founded in 2002 as a merge of two previous CNR institutes: CNUCE and the Istituto di Elaborazione dell’Informazione (IEI). The institute is named in honor of Alessandro Faedo, President of CNR and former rector of the University of Pisa for his important contributions to the development of Computer Science in Italy. The mission of the institute is producing scientific excellence and to playing an active role in technology transfer[2] in the field of Computer Science.

Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione

Founder(s)	CNR
Established	2002 (2002)
Mission	Research on computer science
Director	Roberto Scopigno
Address	Via Moruzzi, 1 Pisa
Location	Pisa , Italy
Website	www.isti.cnr.it

In 2016 the research staff of the institute counts more than 160 researchers, technologists, PhD students, and post-doctoral fellows.[3]

The institute pursues the following major lines of research:

• Networking Science & Technology - mainly focusing on all aspects relevant to networks and new networking technologies. It includes three main research activities, strictly related among them: wireless networks, domotics, and internet services.
• Software - mainly focusing on analysis, testing and validation of software systems, formal methods for modeling complex software-intensive systems; fault tolerant systems, quantitative evaluation of the dependability and quality of service; evaluation and certification of ICT products and processes.
• Knowledge - mainly focusing on (i) intelligent information access and filtering: methods for enhanced access and delivery of digital contents, underlying the next generation of intelligent search engines; (ii) pervasive digital libraries and social networking: methods for the participatory construction of ubiquitous knowledge environments, towards Web 3.0; (iii) knowledge discovery and data mining: methods to learn new knowledge from data and make knowledge usable, and enable the construction of systems capable of adapting their behavior; (iv) multimodal ubiquitous and adaptive user interfaces: methods to enhance the experience of the ubiquitous user interacting with knowledge-rich services.
• High Performance Computing - focusing on tools for the management and the processing of huge amounts of data (aka Big Data);
• Visual - focusing on interdisciplinary research in the fields of graphics and vision.
• Flight and Structural Mechanics - focusing on providing flight dynamics support to national and international space projects and research, software development and consulting in the field of continuum mechanics, with particular focus on structural engineering.

It is responsible of the design and implementation of more than thirty software packages and tools, like, for example, the open source molecular visualization software QuteMol and the 3D mesh processing system MeshLab.

It is leading the development and operation of Data infrastructures including D4Science and OpenAIRE.

It supports and promotes the principles of Open Access and is making available its scientific production by its own Institutional Repository.[4]