Norwegian Computing Center (NCC, in Norwegian: Norsk Regnesentral or NR for short) is a private, independent, non-profit research foundation founded in 1952. NR carries out contract research and development in the areas of computing and quantitative methods for a broad range of industrial, commercial and public service organisations in the national and international markets. A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a science and technology that deals with the original sense of computing mathematical calculations. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Quantitative research. ... Commerce is the trading of something of economic value such as goods, services, information or money between two or more entities. ... Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. ...

The Simula programming language was designed and built by Professor emeritus Ole-Johan Dahl and Professor emeritus Kristen Nygaard at the Norwegian Computing Center (NCC) in Oslo between 1962 and 1967. Simula introduced the object-oriented programming paradigm and thus can be considered the first object-oriented programming language and a predecessor to Smalltalk, C++, Java, and all modern class-based object-oriented languages. ... A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Professor emeritus Ole-Johan Dahl (October 12, 1931 – June 29, 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard. ... A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Kristen Nygaard Kristen Nygaard (August 27, 1926 - August 10, 2002) was a Norwegian mathematician, computer programming language pioneer and politician. ...

Both received the ACM Turing Award in 2001 and the 2002 IEEE John von Neumann Medal for the introduction of the concepts underlying object-oriented programming through the design and implementation of Simula 67. The A.M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. ... The IEEE John von Neumann Medal was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1990 and may be presented annually for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology. ... In computer science, object-oriented programming (OOP) is a computer programming paradigm. ... Simula is a programming language developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Centre in Oslo, by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. ...

External links

• NCC: http://www.nr.no/
• Professor emeritus Kristen Nygaard: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~kristen/FORSKNINGSDOK_MAPPE/FORSKNING_MAIN.html#NR
• Professor emeritus Ole-Johan Dahl: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~olejohan/