Mihajlo Pupin Institute is an institute based in Belgrade

Belgrade

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, Serbia

Serbia

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 notable for manufacturing numerous computer

Computer

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 systems used in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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 - especially early CER

CER Computers

CER was a series of early computers developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute in the 1960s and 1970s.Models:* CER-10 - 1960, based on vacuum tubes, transistors, electronic relays, and magnetic core memory...

 and later TIM line of computers. It is named after Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin.

The Institute is well known in wide range of fields. In the science community, it is known for early work in humanoid robotics

Humanoid robot

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The Institute and companies owned by it compete in fields such as:

• System integration and networking,
• Information systems for government and industry, Internet/Intranet IS
• E-commerce, e-government applications
• Decision support systems, expert systems, intelligent Internet applications,
• Power systems control, supervision and optimization
• Process control and supervision,
• Traffic control, GPS
• Telecommunications
• Digital signal processing
• Simulators, training aids, specialised H/S systems
• Image processing
• Real-time systems (large scale and embedded)
• Turn-key engineering solutions

See also

• CER Computers
  CER Computers
  CER was a series of early computers developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute in the 1960s and 1970s.Models:* CER-10 - 1960, based on vacuum tubes, transistors, electronic relays, and magnetic core memory...
  
  
• HRS-100
  HRS-100
  HRS-100, ХРС-100, GVS-100 or ГВС-100, was a third generation hybrid computer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute and engineers from USSR in the period from 1968. to 1971. Three systems HRS-100 were deployed in Academy of Sciences of USSR in Moscow and Novosibirsk in 1971. and 1978...
  
   computer
• TIM Computers, such as TIM-100
  TIM-100
  -Technical description of the TIM-100:TIM-100 was a PTT teller microcomputer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute in 1985.It was based on the Intel microprocessors types 80x86 and VLSI circuitry...
  
   and TIM-011
  TIM-011
  TIM 011 was an educational or Personal computer for school microcomputer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute of Serbia in 1987. There were about 1.200 TIM-011 computers in Serbian schools in the 1990's.-Specifications:...
  
  
• Michael I. Pupin - Serbian
  Serbs
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   scientist after whom this institute is named.
• History of computer hardware in the SFRY
  History of computer hardware in the SFRY
  The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a socialist country that existed in the second half of the 20th century. Being communist meant that strict technology import rules and regulations shaped the development of computer history in the country, unlike in the Western world. However, since...