Overview
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Description
Mission Statement
The Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS/NTUA) is the research host of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (SECE-NTUA). ICCS builds on the quality of the students and faculty of SECE-NTUA to consistently pursue the following objectives:
- To reinforce research activities in Greece in the disciplines of ECE, to keep abreast with developments in the global scene and to perform cutting-edge fundamental and applied research in information technologies, micro-electronics, communications, power, medicine, logistics, decision support etc.
- To breed innovation in Greece through collaboration with industry and academia worldwide.
- To support the scientific and professional career development of young researchers by exposing them to a high-tech research environment, while securing research stipends for pre- and post-doctoral researchers.
- To provide a protective and supporting environment that can help innovative ideas of its researchers to mature before being launched as spinoff companies.
- To gain visibility worldwide and to build a brand name as a top tier research institute.
Key facts about ICCS
The discipline of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) rests on the applied side of the physical and mathematical sciences and also takes important ingredients from chemistry and biology. Its applications tackle a wide spectrum of knowledge areas, such as information systems, micro-electronics, communications, power production and distribution, medicine, logistics, automation and control, decision support, sensors etc, to name just a few. Moreover, being precisely on the application side, ECE encounters the challenge to continuously exploit and promote, in practical manner, several and novel scientific breakthroughs from the very first moment they emerge or happen, but also to keep track of any disruptive change or evolution of whatever can be considered as ‘hot’ technological application domain. As an example, thirty years ago the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) was a key research area for young engineers, dreaming of high bandwidth digital connectivity. Thirty years onwards, broad-band residential connectivity is common practice and the goal has now shifted to the design of ultra-high bandwidth networks that will extend capacity to the limit of Shannon’s law. Nowadays a softer and more ecologically-orientated application of technologies has focused effort on greener power generation and communication networks while on the same time has given emphasis on applications and technologies directly related to medical and biomedical sciences.
Through the twenty seven years since its foundation, ICCS/NTUA has followed closely the progress of the disciplines of electrical and computer engineering, leading to successfully achieve its set goals and grow to a competent research institute in Greece and Europe.