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title: "Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence is a research institute in the Lugano district of Canton Ticino, in southern Switzerland. It was founded in 1988 by Angelo Dalle Molle through the private Fondation Dalle Molle, and in 2000 became a public research institute, affiliated with the Università della Svizzera italiana and SUPSI in Ticino."
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type: Organization
wikidata: Q5211467
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalle_Molle_Institute_for_Artificial_Intelligence_Research
website: http://idsia.ch
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
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---

# Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research

> The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence is a research institute in the Lugano district of Canton Ticino, in southern Switzerland. It was founded in 1988 by Angelo Dalle Molle through the private Fondation Dalle Molle, and in 2000 became a public research institute, affiliated with the Università della Svizzera italiana and SUPSI in Ticino.

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## Facts

- Category: Research lab
- Country: Switzerland
- Founded: 1988-01-01
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: http://idsia.ch
- Also known as: Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence USI-SUPSI, IDSIA, IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence

## Key people

- Angelo Dalle Molle, founder (businessman, philanthropist)
- Jürgen Schmidhuber (German computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher)
- Marcus Hutter (German AI researcher and computer scientist)

## Ownership

Parent: University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Università della Svizzera italiana

## Coverage on the Monitor

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## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5211467, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalle_Molle_Institute_for_Artificial_Intelligence_Research

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