[2] Famous researchers that have been associated with the department includes Turing Award winners such as Kristen Nygaard, Ole-Johan Dahl and Donald Knuth.

Ernst S. Selmer also gave a lecture on data processing from the mid-fifties, and from the sixties the first competence-giving courses in programming (based on ALGOL and machine coding) were given by John Midtdal.

At the beginning of the seventies, Dahl developed a course package in computer processing intended for lower grades, and wrote textbooks in syntax and semantics in programming languages and in algorithms and data structures.

One of Dahl's most influential publications at that time was Structured Programming, which was published in 1972 and co-authored with Edsger W. Dijkstra and Tony Hoare.

At that time, Nordhagen started international collaborative projects that made important contributions to the foundation of networks and services.

Central to this process were, among others, Lars Walløe, who brought with him rector Bjarne Waaler and Gudmund Harlem of NTNF on the plans for a new building in Gaustadbekkdalen.

[9] Spilling along with his colleagues and fellow countrymen Dag Belsnes and Yngvar Lundh, later ended up on the list of 33 Internet pioneers in the world that were most significant in the development of basic Internet-technology.

[15] The building is located next to Kristen Nygaard's house, Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo Science Park and SINTEF.

In addition, a student pub is held every Friday, as well as various other events such as board game night, whiskey seminars, the Thursday club and theme parties.