IEIIT Milano - History

The Milano unit of the Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni (I.E.I.I.T.) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) was born from the merging of two former CNR research centres:

·         CSTS (Centre on Spatial Telecommunications Studies) established jointly by CNR and Politecnico di Milano in 1971. 

This centre focused its research activities in the area of  propagation and satellite systems, including large international measurement campaigns  conducted with equipment and experimental activity located at the Spino d'Adda Station, as the ones with the satellites SIRIO in 1977-1984 and ITALSAT in 1993 -2002, and in the area of signal processing and digital transmission.   

·         CeSTIA (Centre on Information and Automation Technologies) established in 1997 jointly by CNR and Politecnico di Milano by merging a section of the former Centre on Systems Theory with the former Centre for Information Engineering. 

This centre focused its activities on various areas of computer science and control engineering, obtaining significant results in many fields  such as architectures and systems for information processing, data base and computer networks, language and software engineering, system identification and controls, simulation and industrial automation, environmental  and decision support, public transport, information and communication technologies for life.

At present, researches carried out by IEIIT researchers are the natural evolution of the CSTS and CESTIA scientific traditions in  constant synergy with DEI strategic  programs, a cooperation that demonstrated in these three decades to be very fruitful.