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ISI now pursues three principal missions -- academic research, industrial R&D, and professional training – in three principal areas of distributed, intelligent and hardware systems. Distributed Systems create technologies that enable groups of people, software and hardware to analyze and act jointly, often in complex, uncertain situations.

Intelligent Systems explore natural language, education and information integration technologies that have broad societal and technological implications. And Hardware Systems range from novel computing research to MOSIS’ highly tangible services.

Among our strengths in distributed systems: networking, grid technology, information security, large-scale simulation and advanced resource management. In intelligent systems, ISI excels in natural language, knowledge and learning, data mining and robotics, among others, and is a key player in emerging digital government technologies.

In hardware systems, the emphasis is on creating novel physical devices and technologies, from dramatically faster processors to highly fault-tolerant systems for scalable and low-power embedded systems, reliable space electronics and other goals.

ISI continues evolving to support our public- and private-sector customers’ needs, but our core purpose remains the same: performing groundbreaking research. We bridge gaps between basic and applied research, between university academic research and real-world prototype development, and between our academic, industrial and professional mandates.

After 35 years of genuinely groundbreaking R&D, we look forward to continuing to solve challenging, relevant information issues – including those not yet fully imaginable.