Simula Research Laboratory by Thinking Constantly about it /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tveito, Aslak. (Editor), Bruaset, Are Magnus. (Editor), Lysne, Olav. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer network architectures.; Software engineering.; Physiology > Mathematics.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Applications of Mathematics.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01156-6

The Simula Research Laboratory, located just outside Oslo in Norway, is rightly famed as a highly successful research facility, despite being, at only eight years old, a very young institution. This fascinating book tells the history of Simula, detailing the culture and values that have been the gui...

Table of Contents:

• Preface: Begin Simula. The Scene: The initial stage
• Forming a lab
• About Simula  the language, and about research
• Basic Research: Networks and distributed systems
• Scientific computing
• Software engineering
• Research Education
• Research Applications
• Interviews: Interviews with policymakers
• Interviews with scientists.