The current list of well-known IT companies with engineering presence in Trondheim to my knowledge are:
- Google
- Yahoo
- Microsoft
- SAP
- Sun
- Atmel
- ARM
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Who is the next?
The last 10 or so years there has been several internationally well-known IT companies establishing themselves with engineering presence in Trondheim, either through acquisitions or starting a brand-new offices. This count (most likely) increased by one last week when Microsoft offered to acquire (enterprise search software company) Fast Search and Transfer.
The current list of well-known IT companies with engineering presence in Trondheim to my knowledge are:
The current list of well-known IT companies with engineering presence in Trondheim to my knowledge are:
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Upcoming conferences and talks
October 18-19 - 2nd Conference on Global Health and Vaccination Research
October 17-19 - Norwegian Conference for ICT in public sector
Keynote speakers include:
November 13 - Biofuels and Sustainable Livelyhoods - Combining Sustainable Energy (Solutions) and Developing Countries needs, talk at NTNU by Cameron Rennie
October 17-19 - Norwegian Conference for ICT in public sector
Keynote speakers include:
- Minister of Government Administration and Reform - Heidi Grande Røys
- sci-fi author/Professor of Computers and Law - Jon Bing
November 13 - Biofuels and Sustainable Livelyhoods - Combining Sustainable Energy (Solutions) and Developing Countries needs, talk at NTNU by Cameron Rennie
Monday, June 11, 2007
CAISE Conference and related workshops
This week "The 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'07)" is arranged at Britannia in Trondheim. The conference covers these themes, and has the following program.
Corresponding workshops that I find most interesting are:
Corresponding workshops that I find most interesting are:
- Agent-oriented Information Systems
- Agile Methods in Practice: Challenges and Opportunities
- Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems
Nobel Prize for Environmental Technology suggested by Trondheim scientific societies
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and The Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences suggests creating Nobel prize for environmental technology.
Monday, April 30, 2007
"Multi-Core Architecture" at Google Speaker Series - 2007-May-2 17:15, R7 at NTNU
Talk by Professor Per Stenstrøm from Chalmers University
quote from announcement:
"Computing industry recently made a transition to multicore architectures. Yet, most software is inherently designed to only take advantage of the performance of a single core. As a result, society is faced with a major software crisis and strides have to be taken to smoothen the transition of software to leverage the power of multi-cores.
This talk begins with a brief summary of the reasons why multi-core architecture is the only way forward and why this is a dilemma for the software. The rest of the talk will be devoted to various approaches to convert software to expose parallelism on multi-cores. The main focus will be on architectural techniques researched at Chalmers to aid the compiler/programmer to convert software to run efficiently on multi-core architectures. These techniques include thread-level speculation and transactional memory."
quote from announcement:
"Computing industry recently made a transition to multicore architectures. Yet, most software is inherently designed to only take advantage of the performance of a single core. As a result, society is faced with a major software crisis and strides have to be taken to smoothen the transition of software to leverage the power of multi-cores.
This talk begins with a brief summary of the reasons why multi-core architecture is the only way forward and why this is a dilemma for the software. The rest of the talk will be devoted to various approaches to convert software to expose parallelism on multi-cores. The main focus will be on architectural techniques researched at Chalmers to aid the compiler/programmer to convert software to run efficiently on multi-core architectures. These techniques include thread-level speculation and transactional memory."
Monday, April 16, 2007
Biggest invention from Trondheim?
Of course hard to compete with the bicycle lift.. but the most used invention is probably the Global Systems for Mobile communications, better known as GSM. GSM was invented by Torleiv Maseng and Odd Trandem here in Trondheim in 1980s.
Another candidate for the biggest Trondheim invention is the microscopic monosized plastic beads used e.g. for cleansing of bone marrow (in the case of cancer). This was created by Professor John Ugelstad in 1979 (at that time it was only possible to create such beads in space under weightlessness conditions)
Another candidate for the biggest Trondheim invention is the microscopic monosized plastic beads used e.g. for cleansing of bone marrow (in the case of cancer). This was created by Professor John Ugelstad in 1979 (at that time it was only possible to create such beads in space under weightlessness conditions)
"A Different Universe" - talk by Prof. Laughlin
From the invitation:
"Prof R.B. Laughlin (Stanford University) will present a general lecture on Tuesday, April 17, at 12:15-13 in R1, Realfagbygget. The title of his lecture is "A Different Universe". The lecture is aimed at a general audience. Prof. Laughlin is known as an excellent expositor.
"Prof R.B. Laughlin (Stanford University) will present a general lecture on Tuesday, April 17, at 12:15-13 in R1, Realfagbygget. The title of his lecture is "A Different Universe". The lecture is aimed at a general audience. Prof. Laughlin is known as an excellent expositor.
Prof. Laughlin received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998, and is the 2007 Lars Onsager Lecturer at NTNU."
For Whom the Bell Curves - Statistics Workshop
From the invitation:
"Statistics as a boundary object between science and the state in connection with the project “For Whom the Bell Curves” we will be holding an international workshop/conference at NTNU Dragvoll 14-16. May 2007, with plenary speakers Alain Desrosières, Susan Leigh Star and more."
"Statistics as a boundary object between science and the state in connection with the project “For Whom the Bell Curves” we will be holding an international workshop/conference at NTNU Dragvoll 14-16. May 2007, with plenary speakers Alain Desrosières, Susan Leigh Star and more."
Friday, April 13, 2007
Noteworthy events earlier this winter
Google Speaker Series:
November 8 - "Efficient Algorithms for Hierarchical Memory" by professor Lars Arge from Aarhus University.
February 5 - "Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks: the Distributed Hash Tables Approach" by professor Seif Haridi from Royal Institute of Technology.
November 8 - "Efficient Algorithms for Hierarchical Memory" by professor Lars Arge from Aarhus University.
February 5 - "Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks: the Distributed Hash Tables Approach" by professor Seif Haridi from Royal Institute of Technology.
Upcoming CS PhD defences at NTNU
April 20th - Thesis title: "Biopolymer-based Nanocomposites: Processing and Properties"
May 3rd - Thesis title: "Architectural Techniques to Improve Cache Utilization"
June 1st - Thesis title: "A Cased-Based Approach to Realising Ambient Intelligence among Agents"
May 3rd - Thesis title: "Architectural Techniques to Improve Cache Utilization"
June 1st - Thesis title: "A Cased-Based Approach to Realising Ambient Intelligence among Agents"
IDI Open - Coding Contest - Apr 14
Quote from the announcement:
"IDI Open is a contest for teams of programmers of all skill levels, from those who are taking their first course in programming, to mad skill code monkeys. Each team can consist of up to three people, using one computer to solve the given problems. The programming tasks in the contest is similar to those found in NCPC (NM i programmering) and TopCoder, but the simplest problems in the set will be easier. You will be asked to write programs that takes an input problem definition and calculates a solution. The programs may be in Java, C or C++. Usually, there are around 9 problems, some easy, some medium, and some hard"
Note: IDI is the Department of Computer and Information Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) here in Trondheim
"IDI Open is a contest for teams of programmers of all skill levels, from those who are taking their first course in programming, to mad skill code monkeys. Each team can consist of up to three people, using one computer to solve the given problems. The programming tasks in the contest is similar to those found in NCPC (NM i programmering) and TopCoder, but the simplest problems in the set will be easier. You will be asked to write programs that takes an input problem definition and calculates a solution. The programs may be in Java, C or C++. Usually, there are around 9 problems, some easy, some medium, and some hard"
Note: IDI is the Department of Computer and Information Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) here in Trondheim
Monday, April 9, 2007
Friday, April 6, 2007
Technoport Festival - October 17-20.
Technoport is a trade show for tech companies from the Trondheim region.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
High Tech in Trondheim, Norway
Trondheim is Norway's 3rd largest town, with a population of approximately 162000 (more Trondheim facts in Wikipedia).
Quote about Trondheim in Wired Magazine, 2000:
"This thousand-year-old city of 150,000 on the western Norwegian coast may seem an unlikely high tech locus. Yet through the combined efforts of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Sintef R&D center, the town is spitting out 20 new companies a year in sectors ranging from automation to telecommunications. The biggest impediment for new outfits in Trondheim, though, is still hard capital. "There's no legacy of venture capital in Norway," says Gary Ebersole, a VP for Clustra Systems, the Trondheim database company that spun out of Norwegian telco Telenor and recently transplanted to the US. Slowly, that's changing as young companies are gaining the worldwide presence to draw in VC funding."
Since then?
Google, Yahoo, ARM and Sun Microsystems have arrived in Trondheim (either through acquisitions or new engineering locations). More venture capital has also arrived. Several new startups have been started, e.g. nurtured in the University's Center of Innovation or other local incubators.
Quote about Trondheim in Wired Magazine, 2000:
"This thousand-year-old city of 150,000 on the western Norwegian coast may seem an unlikely high tech locus. Yet through the combined efforts of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Sintef R&D center, the town is spitting out 20 new companies a year in sectors ranging from automation to telecommunications. The biggest impediment for new outfits in Trondheim, though, is still hard capital. "There's no legacy of venture capital in Norway," says Gary Ebersole, a VP for Clustra Systems, the Trondheim database company that spun out of Norwegian telco Telenor and recently transplanted to the US. Slowly, that's changing as young companies are gaining the worldwide presence to draw in VC funding."
Since then?
Google, Yahoo, ARM and Sun Microsystems have arrived in Trondheim (either through acquisitions or new engineering locations). More venture capital has also arrived. Several new startups have been started, e.g. nurtured in the University's Center of Innovation or other local incubators.
CAISE 2007 Conference to Trondheim
19th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAISE2007)
and it's pre-conference event The 13th Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ), is coming to Trondheim in June.
and it's pre-conference event The 13th Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ), is coming to Trondheim in June.
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