Simula Research Laboratory: By Thinking Constantly about It

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642424627
• ISBN13: 9783642424625
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"