Scientists from St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS), visited Institute of Intelligent Machines (IIM), CAS. Dr. WANG Rujing, the deputy director of IMM, met with Dr. Yusupov, director of SPIIRAS, and his entourage. Professor Oleg Cardiff was invited to give a presentation entitled "Multi-parameter systems technology and applications", in which he introduced the research results and progress of Intelligent Systems Laboratory of SPIIRAS on multi-parameter systems technology and applications.
SPIIRAS was established in 1978. It was the only research institute in northwest Russia that was under the management of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Department of Information Technology and Computer Systems. The current director, Dr. Rafael Yusupov, is the Communications Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences. At the same time he is the chairman of the RAS joint scientific council on information, communication and control.