By constructing the programming language SIMULA Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl derived object-oriented programming. Each of them have been known for more than this.
This page collects documents by and on Dahl, Nygaard and SIMULA (biographies, bibliographies, videos, audios, texts).
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Ole-Johan Dahl
(1931 - 2002)
- Turing Award biography
- Ole-Johan Dahl bibliography(pdf)
- Office archive
- Rhapsody in Blue av George Gershwin
Ole-Johan Dahl and Donald E. Knuth playing fourhands at the openingen of the Informatics building in 1988 (now Kristen Nygaards house)
Kristen Nygaard
(1926 - 2002)
- Turing Award biography
- Notes on Kristen Nygaard's early years and his political work by Marius Nygaard (pdf)
- Kristen Nygaard bibliography (pdf)
- About the private archive of Kristen Nygaard located at The National Archives of Norway (pdf in Norwegian)
- Kristen Nygaard's own web site (2002)
- An annotated Kristen Nygaard bibliography
- Memorial page
- Results from the award competition for young people in Norwegian Mathematical Journal (1945).
About SIMULA
- The Norwegian Encyclopedia: SIMULA
- Simula-bibliography (pdf)
- Karel Babčický. Running SIMULA 67 on IBM System/370 emulator. Description, Setup file
- SIMULA 50 years Event. September 2017.
- Open Source Simula
An Open Source project started after the Simula Event in 2017. The purpose of this was to implement Simula in Java. This project is now stable.
Dokumenter
- Kristen Nygaard. Class Counteract. Early (no date) handwritten notes with program and system sketch in SIMULA 67.
- Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Common Base Definition 1967 (pdf)
- Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Class and subclass declarations 1967 (pdf)
- Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Proposals for consideration by the SIMULA 67 Common Base Conference 1967 (pdf)
- Ole-Johan Dahl, Kristen Nygaard and Bjørn Myhrhaug. Common Base Language 1970 (pdf)
Films/Videos
- ACM Conference on History of Programming Languages 1978
Kristen Nygaard about the development of SIMULA and Ole-Johan Dahl about SIMULA realtion to ALGOL. - Simula and object-orientation
Ole-Johan Dahl lecture for students on a pizza evening October 26th 2000 (amateur video) - Talks from the SIMULAs 25th celebration conference 1992
- Unveiling the IEEE Milestone and talks from the SIMULAs 50th celebration conference 2017
Interview and radio programs (in Norwegian)
Intervju
- Kristen Nygaard forteller om opptakten til Norsk Regnesentral (1960) og perioden fram til ca 1964. Opptak fra 2001.
NRK-programmer
- Om spill. Fra ludo til den store strategi (1964-04-01, 41:00 min). Med Kristen Nygaard. Fra Nasjonalbiblioteket.
- Kartlegging av framtida. Om psykomatematikken og dens muligheter (1967-04-01). Aprilspøkprogram der Kristen Nygaard er deltaker. Fra Nasjonalbiblioteket.
- 10 år før Orwells "1984". Hvor klarsynt var han? (1974-11-04, 30:22 min). Diskusjonsprogram der Kristen Nygaard er deltaker . Fra Nasjonalbiblioteket.
- Eventyret om SIMULA. Om SIMULA og Kristen Nygaard i serien Verdt å vite (2002-12-26, 26:40 min.). Programmet kan lånes på CD fra Informatikkbiblioteket.