Institute History:
The Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone" (IAC), one of the oldest CNR-Institute, is a research institute of applied mathematics. It was founded by Mauro Picone in 1927, and since 2002 it has locations in Rome, Bari, Florence and Naples with about 50 researchers. Amazingly enough, its current research policy still reflects many of Picone's original ideas. Indeed, long before the introduction of digital computers, Picone had the intuition of the potential impact on real-life problems of the combination of computational methods with mathematical abstraction.
