1974 - 1990 - World achievements from behind the Iron Curtain
SZTAKI was a key research institute in Hungary in the 1970s and 1980s. During the years of the communist regime, it functioned as a kind of island: researchers were free to work on solutions that were world-firsts on the map of science. The GD-71 and GD-80 graphics displays were ahead of their time. The Dialog CNC machine tool control received much international attention, including from the US Senate, as the region's first microprocessor-based machine tool control. Also noteworthy are the achievements in the field of control theory: the control system for the National High Pressure Gas Network, the control system for the boiler transfer equipment and several IT developments for the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, including the reactor diagnostics and reactor protection system. The culmination of computer network developments at SZTAKI was the creation of the X-25, which laid the foundations for the academic correspondence system known as ELLA. From there, it was only a step to the Hungarian Internet.
1991 - The first Hungarian domain, sztaki.hu, is launched
The first Hungarian domain name, sztaki.hu, was registered at the institute in 1991. This was an early registration, not only in Hungary or Europe, but also worldwide, and it has been shaping the development of the Hungarian Internet to this day (not to mention sztaki.hu is still in use as the main domain of our institute). 2021’s 30th anniversary was not only celebrated by SZTAKI, but also congratulated by Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol that made the internet work.
2002 - W3C Hungarian office opens in SZTAKI
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web. The main aim was to ensure that companies and research institutes involved in the development of web technologies would not needlessly disperse their knowledge and achievements in the future, but would work together in a mutually supportive way to push IT innovations in the same direction. SZTAKI has been a member of the consortium since 1995. W3C opened its first Central and Eastern European office here, the W3C Hungary Office. One of its important tasks and goals is to inform Hungarian institutions and companies about the consortium's developments and to keep them informed. Today, the W3C develops projects in almost 40 areas.
2018 - Foundation of EPIC InnoLabs
EPIC InnoLabs Ltd. is a joint company of SZTAKI and the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, which offers world-class solutions in the field of production informatics based on decades of cooperation and experience with an excellent team of experts. The establishment of the company is an important milestone of the European EPIC Centre of Excellence project, jointly awarded by Fraunhofer, SZTAKI and two faculties of BME.
2019 - SZTAKI belongs to ELKH
In 2019, the research centers previously supervised by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences were transferred to the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), established in the same year, on the initiative of the government of Hungary. As a joint project between SZTAKI and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics, for example, the MTA Cloud service, developed in cooperation with the MTA research institutes, has been further developed: the ELKH Cloud research cloud infrastructure now provides IT services for ELKH.
2020 - Launch of ARNL and MILAB
The national laboratories have been set up with the aim to coordinate the national research activities of different research centers in the country. SZTAKI coordinates two such national laboratories: the National Laboratory for Autonomous Systems, and the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory.
SZTAKI was a key research institute in Hungary in the 1970s and 1980s. During the years of the communist regime, it functioned as a kind of island: researchers were free to work on solutions that were world-firsts on the map of science. The GD-71 and GD-80 graphics displays were ahead of their time. The Dialog CNC machine tool control received much international attention, including from the US Senate, as the region's first microprocessor-based machine tool control. Also noteworthy are the achievements in the field of control theory: the control system for the National High Pressure Gas Network, the control system for the boiler transfer equipment and several IT developments for the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, including the reactor diagnostics and reactor protection system. The culmination of computer network developments at SZTAKI was the creation of the X-25, which laid the foundations for the academic correspondence system known as ELLA. From there, it was only a step to the Hungarian Internet.
1991 - The first Hungarian domain, sztaki.hu, is launched
The first Hungarian domain name, sztaki.hu, was registered at the institute in 1991. This was an early registration, not only in Hungary or Europe, but also worldwide, and it has been shaping the development of the Hungarian Internet to this day (not to mention sztaki.hu is still in use as the main domain of our institute). 2021’s 30th anniversary was not only celebrated by SZTAKI, but also congratulated by Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol that made the internet work.
2002 - W3C Hungarian office opens in SZTAKI
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web. The main aim was to ensure that companies and research institutes involved in the development of web technologies would not needlessly disperse their knowledge and achievements in the future, but would work together in a mutually supportive way to push IT innovations in the same direction. SZTAKI has been a member of the consortium since 1995. W3C opened its first Central and Eastern European office here, the W3C Hungary Office. One of its important tasks and goals is to inform Hungarian institutions and companies about the consortium's developments and to keep them informed. Today, the W3C develops projects in almost 40 areas.
2018 - Foundation of EPIC InnoLabs
EPIC InnoLabs Ltd. is a joint company of SZTAKI and the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, which offers world-class solutions in the field of production informatics based on decades of cooperation and experience with an excellent team of experts. The establishment of the company is an important milestone of the European EPIC Centre of Excellence project, jointly awarded by Fraunhofer, SZTAKI and two faculties of BME.
2019 - SZTAKI belongs to ELKH
In 2019, the research centers previously supervised by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences were transferred to the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), established in the same year, on the initiative of the government of Hungary. As a joint project between SZTAKI and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics, for example, the MTA Cloud service, developed in cooperation with the MTA research institutes, has been further developed: the ELKH Cloud research cloud infrastructure now provides IT services for ELKH.
2020 - Launch of ARNL and MILAB
The national laboratories have been set up with the aim to coordinate the national research activities of different research centers in the country. SZTAKI coordinates two such national laboratories: the National Laboratory for Autonomous Systems, and the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory.