Simula was founded in 2001 by the Norwegian government to conduct fundamental, long-term research within information and communication technology (ICT).
[4] Simula's research is concentrated on five areas: communication systems, scientific computing, software engineering, cybersecurity, and machine learning.
Both men received the A. M. Turing Award in 2001 and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2002 for their contribution to the development of object-oriented programming.
Simula was named after the language to honour the outstanding scientific achievement of Nygaard and Dahl, and to encourage research that meets the highest standards of quality.
Simula's main objective is to conduct basic and applied research and provide education in select areas of information and communications technology (ICT), thereby contributing to innovation in society.
Simula conducts long-term, fundamental research in the following five fields: Communication Systems, Cryptography, Scientific Computing, Software Engineering and Machine Learning.
Simula and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) collaborate on educating master- and PhD-students through the PhD program SUURPh, and through the joint Summer School in Computational Physiology (SSCP).
Inria (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation) and Simula have a long-standing collaboration with a wide scientific footprint.