Trento, March 13, 2008 Andrea Facco Info-telematics for Public Mobility and Logistics HMI Group - Speech Interfaces Centro Ricerche Fiat

March 13, 2008 Public Il presente documento contiene informazioni di proprietà di CRF. Il documento e/o le informazioni in esso contenute non possono essere usate, riprodotte, comunicate a terzi, in tutto o in parte, senza il consenso scritto di CRF. CRF Overview 2 CRF the History Centro Ricerche Fiat S.C.p.A. was constituted in 1976 as reference centre for the activities of innovation and research of Fiat Group. Then it became consortium (in the Italian legal form of Società Consortile per Azioni) participated by the Groups Companies. Besides the headquarters in Orbassano (Torino), three branches Valenzano (Ba), Foggia, Trento and a controlled company (Udine) were set. In approximately 30 years, CRF achieved the threshold of 750 partners from the Industry and 150 from the Academia, all around the world. This stable and tough network reinforces the global strategies of innovation, allows the execution of specific operative activities at local level, ensures the creation of competences and the endless monitoring of the business environment. CRF in the 80ties

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