Research Institute for Measurement and Computing Techniques-a Hungarian institute in a changing environment

The Research Institute for Measurement and Computing Techniques of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was founded in it present form in 1992 for basic and applied research and development in the field of information technology. Its activities involve laboratory automation, industrial automation, parallel processing, image processing, protocol engineering and simulation. The Institute has a long history, starting as a nuclear electronics group in the 1950s, growing into a large establishment in the 1970s and finally changing to its present status as a genuine research institute.<>