In October 2009, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was founded by a merger of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Universität Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany. KIT bundles the missions of both precursory institutions: A university of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg with teaching and research tasks and a large-scale research institution of the Helmholtz Association conducting program-oriented provident research on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany. Within these missions, KIT is operating along the three strategic fields of action of research, teaching, and innovation.
KIT research primarily is based on the capacities and knowledge of the scientists, who are members of the over 140 Institutes of KIT. They are supported by an excellent and worldwide unique scientific infrastructure. In KIT the scientists work in fields of competence depending on their expert know-how. The competence portfolio of KIT is dynamic, develops and takes up new scientific topics.
Information and Communication Technology is one of the major competence areas of KIT. The research focuses on Algorithm, Software and System Engineering, Cognition and Information Engineering, Communication Technology, High-Performance and Grid-Computing, Mathematical Models, Organization and Service Engineering, and Mobile Systems and Mobility Engineering.
In addition, the KIT Focus COMMputation addresses the challenges of adequate management and control of complex technical systems by a combined view on communication and computation. Its major objective is to develop a deeper understanding of the potentials and trade-offs of communication and computation in large collections of interconnected systems and to develop new approaches to their design and engineering.
