Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC or the Institute) is a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute, dedicated to basic research and graduate education in computer science.TTIC was founded by the Toyota Technological Institute (TTI), in Nagoya in Japan, which is a small private engineering school with an endowment provided by the Toyota Motor Corporation. TTIC officially opened for operation in September 2003 and three students entered its Ph.D. program in September 2004.
