Simula Research Laboratory by Thinking Constantly about it /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Tveito, Aslak (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bruaset, Are Magnus (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Lysne, Olav (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; Computer organization.; Software engineering.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Biomathematics.; 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.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.