Founded in 1960 as an institute of Estonian Academy of Sciences, associated with Tallinn University of Technology in 1997.
APPLIED MATHEMATICS. Approximation methods, inverse problems, stochastic programming.
MECHANICS. Nonlinear dynamics and wave propagation, non-destructive stress analysis (photoelasticity and acoustodiagnostics), cardiac dynamics.
COMPUTER SCIENCE. Mathematical foundations for computer science, mathematical logic and constructive mathematics,
automated program synthesis, knowledge-based software engineering,
specification and verification of real-time software, software systems.
CONTROL SYSTEMS. Conceptual analysis, nonlinear and robust control systems, control systems modeling.
LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY. Formal models for natural languages, Estonian phonetics, speech analysis and synthesis, speaker recognition.
At the end of the year 2006 academic staff (55 persons) included 3 members of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 7 DSc, 18 PhD, 18 candidates of sciences, and 18 MSc. Technical staff 41 persons.
Latest achievements of the Institute are reflected in publications:
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| papers in journals referred by ISI Web of Science | 13 | 10 | 24 | 32 | 31 |
| papers in other international journals and conference proceedings | 39 | 71 | 53 | 54 | 75 |
| Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences | 8 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| papers in other scientific journals and proceedings | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 |