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Didem Unat successfully defended her PhD thesis at UCSD
A great day for Simula! Didem Unat, on 26 March, successfully defended her doctor-degree thesis, entitled "Domain-specific translator and optimizer for massive on-chip parallelism". The defence took place at UCSD. Didem has been jointly supervised by Xing Cai and Scott Baden.
Simula achieves top scores in the national ICT evaluation
In a national evaluation of research in ICT, 62 research groups from 13 Norwegian institutions were scored on a scale from one to five. Of these, only five groups were awarded the highest score (5), showing that they have “international leadership, visibility, and vision”. Two of these groups are located at Simula Research Laboratory, two are at the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen, and one is at Department of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Unleashing the computational power in graphics processors
A team of researchers at Simula and UCSD recently secured a highly competitive FRINATEK grant from the Research Council of Norway. The project, entitled User-friendly programming of GPU-enhanced clusters via automated code translation and optimization, will be led by professor Xing Cai in Simula’s department of Computational Geosciences. In total, the project will last for four years and has been awarded a funding of 9.4 million Norwegian kroner.
The Internet is Back
The internet at Simula is now working again. There was a erroneously marked fiber at the switch at Nationaltheatret that was unplugged by a service person that caused the lost connection. The marking has now been corrected to avoid similar problems in the future.
Kristian R. Evensen successfully defended his PhD
On Friday 27 January, Kristian R. Evensen defended his PhD thesis Aggregating the Bandwidth of Multiple Network Interfaces to Increase the Performance of Networked Applications. The defense took place at 13:15, Storstua, Simula.
Shaukat Ali successfully defended his PhD
On Friday 20 January, Shaukat Ali defended his PhD thesis titled Scalable Model-based Robustness Testing: Novel Methodologies and Industrial Application. The defense took place in Storstua at 13.00 at Simula Research Laboratory.
Resolved: Netcom network problem
Netcom reports that the problem has been resolved since 13:30. For those customers that still do not get network should try to turn their phones off and on. ref:https://netcom.no/driftsmeldinger-status
Dominik Kaspar successfully defended his PhD
On Wednesday 11 January, Dominik Kaspar defended his PhD thesis Multipath Aggregation of Heterogeneous Access Networks. The defense took place in the Storstua auditorium at Simula Research Laboratory.
2012 Harlan D. Mills Award from the IEEE Computer Society awarded to Professor Lionel Briand
Professor Lionel Briand has been awarded the 2012 Harlan D. Mills Award from the IEEE Computer Society. Briand received the award for his practical and fundamental contributions to model-based software testing and verification.
Jie Xiang successfully defended his PhD
On Friday 16 December, Jie Xiang defended his PhD thesis Resource Management and Optimization for Cognitive Radio Networks. The defense took place at 13:15, Storstua, Simula Research Laboratory.
Springer CSE Prize 2011 awarded for outstanding work in computational science and engineering
Springer recognizes Laura Alisic, Carsten Burstedde and Georg Stadler for their exceptional research on plate tectonics simulation. The award was presented today to the winners by Norwegian Minister of Research and Education Tora Aasland at Simula's conference Challenges in Computing.
Successful Verdikt applications
In competition with 101 applications, two of our proposals for the Verdikt program got funding last week. Many of the proposals were rated excellent, but only six projects out of the 101 were selected for funding. Congratulations goes to Sven-Arne Reinemo and Tor Skeie, as well as Andreas Petlund. Read on for some more information about the projects.
Best paper award to Netsys
Several members of the ICON group at the Netsys department recently received a best paper award at the International Workshop on Network-aware Data Management , for a paper that describes a mechanism to alleviate congestion in InfiniBand Networks by using dynamic allocation of virtual channels.
Best paper award to Certus
Several Certus members recently received a best paper award at The 13th IEEE International High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium for a paper that describes the results of a two-year joint R&D initiative between Simula and the Technology Qualification Service Line at DNV.
The Center for Cardiological Innovation is officially opened
The Center for Cardiological Innovation (CCI) was formally established as a new Centre for Research-based Innovation on 31 October 2011, after the signing of the agreement between the Research Council of Norway (RCN) and Oslo University Hospital. Simula is research partner in the center.
Kristin Børte successfully defended her PhD thesis
On Friday 4 November, Kristin Børte successfully defended her PhD thesis Software Effort Estimation as Collaborative Planning Activity. The defense took place at Helga Engs hus at the University of Oslo.
Long term impact: Simula researcher receives international award
Today 19 October Leon Moonen received the Most Influential Paper Award at the international Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE). The award was presented to him because his work has had a major impact on the developments in the field of software reverse engineering over the past ten years.
Discussions on network resilience challenges
In light of the recent failures in electronic communications networks, the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Resilient Networks group at Simula invited relevant stakeholders to a workshop held Wednesday 12 October. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss key challenges for a more robust Norwegian network infrastructure.
The Certus Centre is officially opened
On Friday 23 September, the involved parties and representatives from the Research Council of Norway met to sign the agreement and officially open Certus – the new Centre of Research-based Innovation (SFI).
Delegates from the EU commission visiting Simula
In connection with Director-General Robert Madelin’s visit to Norway, representatives from the EU commission and the Norwegian Government visited Simula 20 September 2011.
