{"id":389,"date":"2020-12-03T11:39:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww2.iit.cnr.it\/?page_id=389"},"modified":"2023-12-13T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T09:51:12","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iit.cnr.it\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"about us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Institute of Informatics and Telematics is part of the National Research Council and is based in the CNR research area of Pisa. It also has a secondary branch located on the campus of the University of Calabria in Rende (CS).<br><br><strong>Pisa was the cradle of computer science studies in Italy<\/strong>: the first department of Computer Science and the first Italian electronic calculator were born here. <strong>Our mission<\/strong> today derives from this recent history: to <strong>achieve excellence in scientific research and technological innovation<\/strong> in all areas of study concerning the Internet and its social and technological evolutions, from <strong>mobile (5G) and pervasive networks<\/strong> to the <strong>Internet of Things<\/strong>, from <strong>social network analysis<\/strong> to <strong>cybersecurity<\/strong>, from <strong>algorithmics<\/strong> applied to the Internet to intelligent systems and emerging technologies related to <strong>artificial intelligence<\/strong> and <strong>quantum computing<\/strong>.<br><br>From the site of CNUCE, the CNR institute from which the IIT was born, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originiinternetitalia.it\/it\/\">Italy was connected to the Internet for the first time on April 30, 1986<\/a>. As a consequence of this historic event, in fact, the Institute carries out activities of innovation and technological development, dedicated to the Internet and its applications. <strong>Since its inception, the IIT has managed the .it Registry<\/strong>, the registry of Italian domain names, a fundamental service for promoting the spread of the Internet and digital culture throughout society, from businesses to citizens.<br><br>The Institute participates, also with a coordinating role, in numerous regional, national and international research projects. It is part of the NRRP Projects <a href=\"https:\/\/future-ai-research.it\">FAIR &#8211; Future AI Research<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/serics.eu\">SERICS<\/a> e <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazione-restart.it\">RESTART<\/a>, the<strong> National Center of Expertise on Industry 4.0<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/artes4.it\/\">Artes 4.0<\/a>, and is the promoter of the <strong>National Committee for Cybersecurity Research<\/strong>, of the Tuscan Center of Excellence on Cybersecurity (C3T) and on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. \u00a0<br><br>Since February 2022, IIT-CNR has also been part of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/quantum-computing\/ibm-quantum-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/quantum-computing\/ibm-quantum-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BM Quantum Network<\/a>.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iit.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IIT-company-profile-EN.pdf\"><strong>IIT &#8211; Presentation of <\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iit.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IIT-company-profile-EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">activities<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Informatics and Telematics is part of the National Research Council and is based in the CNR research area of Pisa. It also has a secondary branch located on the campus of the University of Calabria in Rende (CS). Pisa was the cradle of computer science studies in Italy: the first department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagina_con_sottopagine.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-389","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/389\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}