Activity

Our mission is: To attract outstanding scientists (their students and teams) who specialize in computing and automation; To provide them with a multidisciplinary environment in order to stimulate outstanding research and development; To have the resultant state-of-the art technology transferred to academia, governments and industry world-wide.

The fundamental task of the Institute is to perform basic and application oriented research in an interdisciplinary setting in the field of computer science, intelligent systems, process control, wide-area networking and multimedia. The tasks are performed on the basis of contracts with the aim of transferring the research results into the industry and state administration.

The activity is concentrated mainly on complex systems, the turn-key tasks from system planning to realization, furthermore the training of the personnel in cases when the complex interdisciplinary knowledge, possibility of organizing specialized teams, the good infrastructure and financial stability of the Institute mean competitive advantages compared with small- and medium size enterprises.

The Institute's mission includes the transfer of state of the art results and research technology to university students. The Institute is very active in graduate and post-graduate education, cooperating with most of technical universities in Hungary and operating common chairs and post-graduate programmes together with them. More than 40 members of staff of MTA SZTAKI conduct regular lectures for graduate and post-graduate students, as well senior researchers hold part-time position as university professors. About 50 Ph.D. students and 30-40 graduate students participate in the work of the Institute.