Institute for Computer Science and Control
# Institute for Computer Science and Control

The Institute for Computer Science and Control (in short SZTAKI, Hungarian: Számítástechnikai és Automatizálási Kutatóintézet) is a Hungarian research institute in Budapest, founded in 1964.

## Scope

Its primary tasks include basic and application-oriented research in an interdisciplinary setting in the fields of engineering, computer science, information technology, intelligent systems as well as process control, multimedia and wide area networking. Further tasks of SZTAKI include training, contract-based target research, development and expert support for domestic and foreign industrial, governmental and other partners. The institute also operates a public advice service on knowledge-transfer of up-to-date research results and state-of-the-art technology to university students. SZTAKI has wide external relationships and different groups within the institute work on projects for well-known international and Hungarian companies and the number of European Union projects is also impressing. Its staff has more than 300 full-time employees.

## International scientific relations

SZTAKI is a member of the Khronos Group, World Wide Web Consortium, ERCIM, and has a joint venture - Epic InnoLabs - with Fraunhofer Society

## Research activity

Basic research - Main domains

* Computer science
* Systems- and control theory
* Engineering and business intelligence
* Machine perception and human-computer interaction

R&D activities

* Vehicles and transportation systems
* Production informatics and logistics
* Energy and sustainable development
* Security and surveillance
* Networks, networking systems and services, distributed computing

## Departments

* 3D Internet-based Control and Communications Laboratory
* Computational Optical Sensing and Processing Laboratory
* eLearning Department
* Distributed Events Analysis Research Laboratory
* Department of Distributed Systems
* Geometric Modelling and Computer Vision Laboratory
* Network Security Department
* Informatics Laboratory
* Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence
* Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems
* Systems and Control Lab

## Public services

* W3C Hungarian Office
* SZTAKI Dictionary
* SZTAKI Web Search
* KOPI Plagiarism Detection System
* SZTAKI Desktop GRID
* SZTAKI WS-PGRADE Portal
* NDA@SZTAKI
* EMIS MIRROR
* Sztakipédia Wiki editor
* Guide@hand audio tourist guide application Archived 2013-01-30 at the Wayback Machine
