Simula Research Laboratory by Thinking Constantly about it /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Tveito, Aslak (Editor ), Bruaset, Are Magnus (Editor ), Lysne, Olav (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edición:1st ed. 2010.
Temas:
Mathematics > Data processing.
Mathematics.
Computer engineering.
Computer networks .
Biomathematics.
Software engineering.
Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.
Applications of Mathematics.
Computer Engineering and Networks.
Mathematical and Computational Biology.
Software Engineering.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Scene
  • What Would you do if you Suddenly got an Annual Grant of About Ten Million Dollars?
  • By Thinking Constantly About It
  • The Simula Culture - How we do Research, Education and Innovation
  • Impressed with Targeted Research Strategy
  • The Hamming Experience
  • Richard Hamming - You and Your Research
  • Simula Research Laboratory - A Different Research Institution
  • IT Fornebu and the Political Battle that led to the Creation of Simula
  • The Right Step at the Right Time
  • A Brief History of Norwegian Science and Research Policy
  • Simula - The Language
  • Basic Research
  • to Basic Research
  • Networks and Distributed Systems - Why, What, How and What's Next
  • Scalable Interconnection Networks
  • Providing Resilience in Communications Networks
  • From Gilgamesh to Star Wars
  • RELAY - On the Performance and Resource Utilisation of Time-Dependent Large-Scale Distributed Systems
  • Scientific Computing - Why, What, How and What's Next
  • Catching the Beat
  • Computer Simulations of the Heart
  • A Message from the Heart
  • Can ECG Recordings and Mathematics tell the Condition of Your Heart?
  • Past and Future Perspectives on Scientific Software
  • Software Engineering - Why, What, How and What's Next
  • A Matter of Judgement
  • Software Development Effort Estimation - Demystifying and Improving Expert Estimation
  • Faulty Until Proved Correct
  • Software Verification - A Scalable, Model-Driven, Empirically Grounded Approach
  • The industry is our lab - Organisation and Conduct of Empirical Studies in Software Engineering at Simula
  • A Series of Controlled Experiments on Software Maintenance
  • Research Education
  • Educating Researchers - a Virtue of Necessity
  • Thinking Outside the Box
  • A Little Competition and a Lot of Cooperation
  • Are you Planning to Take a PhD?
  • An Extraordinary Investment
  • Simula can do Much Better!
  • Achieving Relevance
  • Research Applications
  • Bridging the Gap Between Industry and Research
  • Making the Invisible Visible
  • Turning Rocks into Knowledge
  • A Tale of Three Start-ups
  • Spinning Off from Simula
  • We're Not a Telco, We're a Webco.

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