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Celebration for ITRI's 43rd Anniversary

ITRI celebrated the 43rd anniversary of its founding and held the ITRI Elite Awards ceremony on July 5th. Four categories of awards—Outstanding Research Award, Industry Contribution Award, Meritorious Service Award, and Quality Model Award—were given in recognition of ITRI employees’ technology innovations and their influence on Taiwan’s industry.

“ITRI has played a substantial part in Taiwan’s high-tech industry development since it nurtured Taiwan’s semiconductor industry 43 years ago,” ITRI President Jonq-Min Liu remarked. He further explained that amid the global trend of industry convergence, it is necessary for Taiwan to shift its focus from components to systems by integrating hardware and software power with intelligent systems. President Liu hopes that ITRI can continue to lead in mastering emerging technologies and combine them with innovative business models to create new values. Meanwhile, the Institute is expected to connect to the world’s innovation ecosystem and provide timely support for Taiwan’s industrial upgrade and transformation.

This year’s anniversary celebration exhibited more than 20 cutting-edge R&D technologies from the ITRI Elite Awards, including ITRI Cloud OS, Taiwan’s first large-scale cloud system software; mScan, the world’s first wireless 3D scanner designed for Android mobiles; ChemSEI additive for cycle life enhanced lithium-ion batteries in EVs; and SuperSizer, a nanoparticle monitoring system in liquid solutions for semiconductor industry.

ITRI Cloud OS, winner of the gold medal of Industry Contribution Award, is a good example showing that the efforts in software and hardware skills integration have prompted a gradual buildup on system software in ITRI and in Taiwan. A gold medal winner for the Outstanding Research Award went to the ChemSEI additive for EV lithium-ion batteries. This technology proves that when opportunities meet problems, innovation will be sparked, and this is the very time when a follower may become a leader. SuperSizer, another gold medal winner of the Outstanding Research Award, illustrates that sustained competency built over time in one area (i.e. particle monitoring) can be applied effectively to another (i.e. semiconductors).

President Liu said he believes there are more innovative applications to be found at ITRI and they will keep amazing the world.

ITRI’s anniversary ceremony also included a musical performance that incorporated the technology that won the 2016 Taiwan OpenStack Application Hackathon’s Grand Prize and Design Recognition Award. A violinist wearing the Mechanomyogram (MMG) sensors demonstrated how the technology can be used for musical learning by capturing vibration signals emitted by muscles and recording subtle arm/finger movements.