Editing Norwegian Computing Center (section)

==History ==
NR was established in 1952. Until 1970 an important part of the activity was to perform mathematical computations for other organizations. NR has worked with data communication since 1963. The [[Simula programming language]] was designed and built by [[Ole-Johan Dahl]] and [[Kristen Nygaard]] and their research group at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo between 1962 and 1967.

After 1970 NR has been a methodological research institute. In 1985, NR became an independent institute and moved to its present location in 1988. It has worked with the [[Internet]] since 1973, ICT security since 1988, multimedia since 1994, e-Inclusion since 2005. It started working with [[remote sensing]] in 1982, [[geostatistics]] and [[petroleum]] in 1983, marine resources in 1988 and [[electricity prices]] and finance in 1994.

NR employees Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard received the [[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.

A book about the history of NR, ''Norsk Regnesentrals historie 1952 - 2002'' was published in 2002.<ref>[http://www.nr.no/en/node/346 Norsk Regnesentrals historie 1952 - 2002] {{in lang|no}} Norsk regnesentral, retrieved 9 July 2013</ref>