The Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI) at Academia Sinica was founded in February 2007, with the purpose to integrate the research and development activities in information technologies among various organizations in Academia Sinica, and also to further leverage IT-related multi-disciplinary research. The mission of CITI is to promote the innovation and application of information technologies, with emphases on exploring the enabling technology for essential infrastructure and also on integrating inter-disciplinary technologies so as to provide the key ingredients that are invaluable for the upcoming knowledge-based and service-based societies.