Simula research laboratory: by thinking constantly about it

This fascinating book tells the history of the Simula Research Laboratory, a highly successful research facility outside Oslo in Norway. Dedicated to tackling scientific challenges of genuine social importance, the laboratory undertakes important research with long-term implications in networks, computing and software engineering, including specialist work in biomedical computing. It has a policy of avoiding short-term projects. The text covers every angle: the laboratory's background and political context, the work it has completed, its approach to the education and development of its researchers, and the organisation's efforts to promote the application of its research results. The key research projects and results are covered in separate chapters, each of which is preceded by a thumbnail analysis of the research's social value. As well as explanatory text, the other chapters feature interviews with major players in thefacility's history, both inside Simula, among its collaborators, and in Norwegian society at large. INDICE: Preface: Begin Simula. The Scene: The initial stage.- Forming a lab.- About Simula – the language, and about research.- Basic Research: Networksand distributed systems.- Scientific computing.- Software engineering.- Research Education.- Research Applications.- Interviews: Interviews with policymakers.- Interviews with scientists.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-01155-9
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés