Technology Development with a Spirit of Collaboration: Pervasive Technology Institute

Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) at Indiana University is a world-class organization dedicated to the development and delivery of innovative information technology to advance research, education, industry, and society.  Supported by a $15 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., PTI is built upon a spirit of collaboration and brings together researchers and technologists from a range of disciplines and organizations, including the former Pervasive Technology Labs, the School of Informatics, the School of Law and University Information Technology Services at Indiana University.

"Creating the Pervasive Technology Institute is the logical next step to securing our position of leadership in the information technology field and will serve as a catalyst to our efforts to expand all of our research enterprises within the university and state. It will build on nearly a decade of outstanding applied research work in information technology and on IU's highly advanced IT infrastructure, much of it initially funded by the Lilly Endowment. We are deeply grateful to the Lilly Endowment for this grant -- and for its extraordinary continuing support of so many aspects of the research and education mission at Indiana University."  
                                                            - Indiana University President, Michael McRobbie

PTI creates new ways to analyze and understand massive amounts of digital data; and perform new policy and computer science research to ensure that computer systems and networks can be used with appropriate privacy while protecting national security interests.

PTI is made up of three research centers that report to the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology:

•    The Digital Science Center creates intuitively usable cyberinfrastructure with tremendous capabilities for supporting collaboration and computation.
•    The Data to Insight Center creates new tools to understand and gain insight from the vast quantities of data now produced in digital form.
•    The Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research will lead the creation of IT security policy, security monitoring tools and secure applications in critical areas of cyberinfrastructure, including personalized health.

PTI is primarily housed in the IU Bloomington Innovation Center, a 40,000-square-foot facility designed to accommodate life science and information technology start-ups. The new facility is located on university property at the intersection of 10th Street and the Ind. 45/46 Bypass. The Pervasive Technology Institute is one of the first tenants of the Incubator, which opened in August 2009. PTI will also have a location at IUPUI.