Institute of Information Theory and Automation - Ústav teorie informace a automatizace AV ČR, v.v.i. (ÚTIA)

The Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA) was established in 1959 as a merger of two academic laboratories: the Department of Information Theory of the Institute of Radio Engineering and the Laboratory for Automation and Telemechanics.

UTIA has been involved in basic research in systems, control, and information science. In the 1960s, it achieved significant results in research on the entropy of various sources and in the capacity of information channels with memory. The 1970s saw the development of an algebraic approach to control system design, which yielded numerous important results, including i.a. a parametrization of all stabilizing controllers. The main contributions of the 1980s include a Bayesian approach to self-tuning control, a theory of R-nyi distances in probabilistic spaces, and a method of mathematical modeling large-scale gas-distribution networks. UTIA currently holds research grants from European Communities/Union,? the National Science Foundation and the Czech Science Foundation.