The Mihailo Pupin Institute is among the largest and most eminent research organizations in technical sciences in Yugoslavia. Founded in 1946 as the Telecommunications Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, it was given its present name 13 years later. In the Institute's early days the personnel, about one hundred employees, just a few of them researchers, has grown to more than 850 employees, 300 of them researchers, working in a 15,000 sq. meters modern research center.