Advanced Learning And Research Institute, ALaRI

ALaRI is the Advanced Learning and Research Institute established in 1999 in Lugano, Switzerland, at the University of Lugano - Università della Svizzera italiana - one of the ten Cantonal Swiss Universities and of the two Federal Technical Universities belonging to the Swiss Higher Education System and recognized by the Swiss Federal Government. This initiative is the outcome of the synergic interaction between three principal actors: the European academia, the American academia and the high-tech industry. The members of the ALaRI steering committee come from these three areas and work to foster academic-industrial collaboration in the field of embedded systems design. The main research areas are hardware/software design of embedded micro-systems, with specific relation to high-performance applications. Through its collaborative relations with Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and the Zurich Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland), as well as its active research programs (supported by European funding and by the Swiss Science Foundation), ALaRI has been able to bridge the gap between information (software) technologies and electronic (engineering) technologies, exploring cutting-edge topics and addressing its research toward pragmatic industrial problems.