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KISTI, Leading the Transformation of R&D with AI and HPC:
A History Shared with People

2021~

2024.11
Dr. Lee Sik inaugurated as the 9th President
2023.12
Released the S&T-specialized generative large language model, ‘KISTI Open Natural Intelligence (KONI)’
2022.06
Held the 60th Anniversary Celebration
2021.03
Dr. Kim Jae-soo inaugurated as the 8th President

2011~2020

2020.03
Established the National Open Access Platform (AccessON) and the Scholarly Ecosystem Against Fake Publishing Environment (SAFE)
2019.08
Launched the National Research Data Platform (DataON)
2019.08
The Packaged R&D Platform for Investment Evaluation (R&D PIE) awarded the ‘2019 Government Innovation Award’ by the OECD
2019.01
Launched the Intelligent S&T Knowledge Infrastructure Service Platform (ScienceON)
2018.11
Commissioned of the 5th Supercomputer, ‘NURION’ (27.5 PFlops)
2018.08
Exported the National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS) to Costa Rica
2018.01
Dr. Choi Hee-yoon inaugurated as the 7th President
2016.02
Contributed to the first observation of gravitational waves (5 KISTI researchers as co-authors)
2014.09
Dr. Han Seon-hwa inaugurated as the 6th President
2013.09
Launched the Creative Economy Town
2012.05
Held the 50th Anniversary Celebration
2011.12
Designated as the National Center for Supercomputing
2011.08
Dr. Park Young-seo inaugurated as the 5th President (consecutive)

2001~2010

2010.10
'Awarded the 'Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Innovation Award’ (1st among public institutes)
2009.10
Established the National Association of Science and Technology Information (ASTI)
2009.10
Commissioned of the 4th Supercomputer, ‘Tachyon-II’ (274.8 TFlops)
2008.08
Dr. Park Young-seo inaugurated as the 4th President
2008.06
Hosted the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) Conference in Seoul
2006.08
Dr. Yang Byung-tae inaugurated as the 3rd President
2005.10
Designated as the managing agency of the National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
2005.10
Transferred the National Digital Science Library (NDSL) from KAIST
2005.08
Launched the Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD)
2004.11
Declared BI as the first government-funded research institute and launched the portal site ‘yeskisti.net’
2003.08
Dr. Cho Young-hwa inaugurated as the 2nd President (consecutive)
2003.04
Awarded as the Best Institute in the 2002 evaluation by the Korea Research Council of Public Science & Technology
2002.03
Commissioned of the 3rd Supercomputer, ‘IBM p690’ (4.3 TFlops)
2001.01
Officially launched as the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)

1990~2000

2000.08
Dr. Cho Young-hwa inaugurated as the 1st President of KISTI
2000.02
Announced the merger of KINITI and KORDIC to form the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)
1999.09
Integrated the ETRI Supercomputing Center into KORDIC
1999.05
Established KORDIC as an independent corporation
1993.11
Commissioned of the 2nd Supercomputer, ‘Cray C90’ (16 GFlops)
1993.03
Established the Korea Research & Development Information Center (KORDIC) as an affiliated organization of KIST
1991.01
Established the Korea Institute of Industry and Technology Information (KINITI) as an independent corporation separated from KIET

1960~1980

1988.10
Commissioned of the 1st Supercomputer, 'CRAY 2S' (2 GFlops)
1982.01
Reorganized as the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade (KIET)
1969.05
Enactment of the Korea Science and Technology Information Center Promotion Act (Act No. 2109)
1962.01
Established the Korea Science & Technology Information Center (KORSTIC)
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