Training

The Institute gives a significant contribution to the training of professional, highly qualified people. The IIT training programmes are wide-ranging and involve graduates at various levels, research doctors, technicians, and operators of Internet services.
In this area IIT works closely with the Department of Information Engineering: Electronics, Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Pisa. By means of the many training courses and events (conferences and workshops) organised by the staff of the Institute, an effective transfer of know-how to the productive structure of the nation can be made.

Training is carried out in the following fields:

- University Master in Internet Technologies (Level 1)
The Master is organized by the Department of Computer Engineering: Electronics, Informatics, Telecommunications of the University of Pisa together with the Institute for Informatics and Telematics of the CNR of Pisa, under the patronage of the Italian Registry.
The Master course includes the "Cisco Networking Academy Program", useful as a step towards CCNA certification, which is taught by the CISCO Academies: "Informatics Engineering - Networking and Multimedia" and "CNR - Pisa Research Area".
The Master in Internet Technologies lasts one academic year and is worth 60 CFU points: comprising lectures (26 CFU), laboratory practice (18 CFU) and final apprenticeship in a company (16 CFU).
For further information: http://www2.ing.unipi.it/master.it/

- PhD in Information Engineering: "Pisa International Summer School on The Next Generation Internet"
The Institute of Informatics and Telematics of CNR and the Department of Computer Engineering: Electronics, Informatics, Telecommunications of the University of Pisa organize an international school for advanced research in Internet and networks called "Pisa International School on Next Generation Internet", addressed to doctorate students and young researchers.
The School offers annual courses on this specific sector which are held by university experts, research organisations and other highly scientifically qualified Italian and international experts. The School is addressed to doctorate students in Information Engineers and to young researchers of IIT-CNR. The School's courses are opened to other Pisa University doctorate students, such as those of the "Leonardo da Vinci" Doctorate Faculty in Engineering as well as to young researchers from other Italian or international universities and research organisations.
For further information: http://www.iet.unipi.it/.../ScuolaInternet.html

- University Courses
In addition to the university courses held by the Institute within the Internet Technologies University Master, during the 2007 academic year the IIT researchers held the following university courses:
o Computational Mathematics: parallel calculus (Department of Computer Science Pisa University) P. Favati
o Computational Mathematics: computational geometry (Department of Computer Science Pisa University) M. Pellegrini
o Calculus of equilibria in games and markets (Department of Computer Science Pisa University) B. Codenotti
o Programming laboratory (Department of Mathematics Pisa University) P. Santi
o Cycle of seminars, part of the course on Mobile networks (Department Computer Science Pisa University) P. Santi

- Training courses for Internet Service Providers/Maintainers
With regard to the registration and management of domain names under the .it country code top level domain, IIT organizes several annual training courses at national level for Internet Service Providers and Maintainers. The courses are as follows:
o Basic course in registering domain names under the ccTLD .it
o Advanced course on DNS
o Course on the legal and juridical aspects regarding domain names
o Course on Linux
o Course on Web Technologies
o Course on Information Security
o Course on email
For further information: http://www.nic.it/RA/index.html (web pages reserved for providers/maintainers).

- CISCO Academy (CCNA e CCNP)
From November 2000 IIT participates in the Cisco Networking Academy Program as a Local Networking Academy (Academy ID: 36507). The academy located at the Pisa Research Area, prepare students for "Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA)" and "Cisco Certified Networking Professional (CCNP)" with qualified instructors.
The courses for CCNP certification, addressed to technical staff, students and graduate, are organized in 3 modules (CCNP1, CCNP2, CCNP3) The CCNP curriculum builds on Cisco CCNA® courses with more complex network configurations, diagnosis, and troubleshooting. The curriculum is intended for those interested in continuing their post-CCNA preparation to become network administrators, Level 2 support engineers, Level 2 systems engineers, network technicians, or deployment engineers.


- Training courses for CNR employees
IIT organizes professional training and updating courses for CNR employees on subjects related to Internet and to the Information and Communication Technologies.
In particular, IIT has organized the following courses held by lecturers belonging to the Institute with wide experience on the course subject matters:
o Courses of English and seminars on Scientific English
o Course on Basic principles of Internet: From Architecture to Applications
o Course on Excel 2003
o Course on Word 2003
o Training course on Web Technologies
o Course on AutoCAD 2002
For further information, please contact: segreteria-scientifica@iit.cnr.it

- Seminars
The Institute gives a significant contribution to the training of professional, highly qualified people. The IIT training programmes are wide-ranging and involve graduates at various levels, research doctors, technicians, and operators of Internet services. In this area IIT works The Institute organizes seminars, held at the Institute, on subjects related to information and communication technologies and to computational sciences. The seminars, held by Italian and foreign lecturers, are aimed at deepening knowledge on the research fields developed at the Institute.
During the two year period 2006-2007, the following seminars have been held at IIT:
o Numerical algorithms for estimating least squares problems
o Low Latency Data Broadcast in Multi-Rate Wireless Meshes
o Seeing inside the cube: improved sonar imaging with techniques from computer graphics and vision
o IEEE 802.11-Based One-Hop Broadcast Communications: Understanding Transmission Success and Failure under Different Radio Propagation Environments
o OmegaWiki, words and more
o Searching Nearest Neighbours Through Cluster Pruning
For further information, please contact: segreteria-scientifica@iit.cnr.it or see: http://www.iit.cnr.it/eventi/seminari/seminari.php

- Thesis
The IIT offers university students the opportunity of preparing their dissertations at the institute on subjects related to information and communication technologies and on computational sciences, with the collaboration and under the direct supervision of researchers working in the institute.
The main subjects are as follows:
o Multi-hop wireless networks: ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mesh networks (Degree course in Computer Science and Computer Engineering)
o Image Reconstruction: interactive regularizing methods (Degree course in Mathematics and Computer Science)
o Efficient Algorithms for the reconstruction of haplotypes in computational biology (Degree course in Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics)
o Security and trust management in Service Oriented Architectures: Web-Services, GRID, Mobile devices (Degree course in Computer Science and Computer Engineering)
o Wireless Mesh Networks: Implementation and experimentation (Degree course in Computer Science and Computer Engineering)
o Opportunist type multi-hop networks (Degree course in Computer Science and Engineering)
o P2P platforms for multi-hop wireless networks (Degree course in Computer Science and Engineering)
o Parliamentary minutes in XML (Degree course in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Law)
o Cooperation between agents by exchange of files (Degree course in Engineering and Computer Science)
o Secure protocols for sensor and wireless networks (Degree course in Computer Science and Engineering)
o Formal methods for web security devices (Degree course in Computer Science and Computer Engineering)
o Design and implementation of tools for mobile distributed systems (e.g., smart Phones) (Degree course in Computer Science and Computer Engineering)
For further information, please contact: segreteria-scientifica@iit.cnr.it

- Ph. D
o Computer-network solutions for pervasive computing
o Mesh networks
o Opportunistic network
o Sequence Validation and Anchoring on Optical Maps (Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Pisa)
o Servizi Web con Qualita' del Servizio (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Universita' di Pisa)
o Performability in ad hoc networks (Dipartimento di Informatica - Universita' di Pisa)
o Algorithms for efficient resources utilization in WPAN and WLAN (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione - Universita' di Pisa)

- Joint Research Laboratory "PerLab"
IIT and the Department of Computer Engineering of Pisa University have constituted together, in 2004, the joint research laboratory "PerLab" - The Pervasive Computing & Networking Laboratory - which aims at developing high level international research in pervasive computing and at encouraging cooperation between the scientific and entrepreneurial world for a mutually beneficial exchange of know-how. The laboratory offers study grants for first degree holders, PhD grants and post-doctorate positions.
For further information: http://www.perlab.it

- Scientific events
The institute organizes national and international scientific events on ICT through which research activities and their results are promoted, as well as new cooperations with research centres, public bodies and industries are accomplished.
For further information : segreteria-scientifica@iit.cnr.it
or: http://www.iit.cnr.it/eventi/eventi.php