History

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

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

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 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 Supercomputing Center under the Act on the Utilization and Fostering of National Supercomputers
2011.08: Dr. Park Young-seo inaugurated as the 5th President (consecutive)

2010.10: Received 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: Selected as the Best Institute in the 2002 evaluation by the Korea Research Council of Public Science and Technology
2002.03: Commissioned the 3rd Supercomputer, ‘IBM p690’ (4.3 TFlops)
2001.01: Officially launched as the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)

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 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

1988.10: Commissioned the 1st Supercomputer 'Cray 2S' (2 GFlops)
1984.01: Reorganized as the System Engineering Center under KAIST (Supercomputing Center)
1982.01: Reorganized into the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and 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)