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History of NADA

Ingrid Melinder

1962   Department of Numerical Analysis, offshoot of Applied Mathematics.
1963   Sweden’s first professorship in Numerical Analysis:
Germund Dahlquist. Personnel: 6 staff members.
1964   Calculator-room with 15 electric desk calculators: FACIT CA13.
1965   We merge with Administrative Data Processing and form the Department of Information Processing.
1967   Temporary computer in the building: CDC3200.
1968   Centralization to regional IBM-system. Computer Centre QZ established.
1970   Minicomputer HP2000 with 8 Teletype terminals.
1972   Administrative Data Processing moves to Frescati.
1974   Mainframe dialogue computer, DEC-10, stationed at QZ.
1977   University reform, links with Administrative Data Processing are dissolved.Two terminal halls with 30 terminals in total.
1979   Change of name: Numerical Analysis and Computing Science,
NADA. Nadja: DEC2020 computer for ourcourses.
1980   An electronic terminal exchange is installed.
1981   New terminal halls containing 41 terminals.
1982   Professor in Computer Science: Stefan Arnborg. Vera: DEC2060 computer for our research and postgraduate courses. Four-year Computer Science option within School of Mathematics at Stockholm University. Personnel: around 40 permanent staff members.
1983   School of Computer Science and Engineering (D) at KTH.
Terminal halls enlarged to contain 76 terminals.
1984   Advanced graphic workstations: XEROX 1108.
First laser printer: Canon LBP-10.
Duvan: VAX 11/750 computer for courses within school D.
Successive extension of Ethernet computer network at KTH.
1985   Two workstation labs for D-students, containing in total 24 Apple Macintosh personal computers, 2 laser printers and 4 graphic workstations.
Computer Vision and Graphics Laboratory established with equipment for research on image analysis and graphics, e.g. Bogart: VAX 11/750 computer.
Venus: DEC2020 computer for our basic courses.
1986   Professor in Computer Vision: Jan-Olof Eklundh.
Workstations for Smalltalk: Tectronix 4405 and 4406.
Large dedicated Unix computer for education at D: Draken
(Pyramid 9820).
1987   Personnel: around 75 permanent staff members.
Adjoint professor of Information Psychology: Hans Marmolin.
1988   Center for Computational Mathematics and Mechanics,
C2M2, started inside Nada. Professor Heinz-Otto Kreiss is
the scientific leader.
1990   SUN-servers 4/490 installed, replacing and enhancing DEC
2020/2060 and Pyramid computers.
1991   Professor Germund Dahlquist retired. New professor at
Nada: Björn Engquist.
Personnel: around 90 permanent staff members.
All text terminals exchanged to XWindow-terminals (92 for
students).
1992   Professor in Theoretical Computer Science: Johan Håstad.
Reorganization at KTH; KTH Network Operation Centre
(KTHNOC) transferred to Nada. Laboratory with 8 NeXT
computers.
1993   Center for Parallel Computers (PDC) associated with Nada.
Silicon Graphics Workstations (Onyx and Indigos).
1996   Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS) hosted by Nada.
Adjoint professor in Scientific and Statistic Database Treatment: Per Svensson.
PDC computers: Cray J932 and Fujitsu VX and a Virtual Reality lab with an ImmersaDesk was opened.
1997   Professor in Human Computer Interaction: Kerstin
Severinson-Eklundh.
Personnel: around 160 permanent staff members.
1998   Professor in Computer Science, Autonomous systems: Henrik Christensen.
Human-computer interaction become a separate academic discipline.
PDC six-surface VR-CUBE system (SGI Onyx2 and InfiniteReality graphics pipes).
1999   PDC computer: IBM SP-2 upgraded to 170 separate processor nodes.
Donation by Sun Microsystems AB: 20 Sun Ultra 10 workstations.
The name of the department is changed to Numerical Analysis and Computer Science.
2000   Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, SBC hosted by the department of Bio Chemistry, SU. NADA is one partner.
The research group Media Technology and Graphic Arts moves
to NADA. Chair Professor: Nils Enlund.
2001   Chair Professor in Applied Numerical Analysis: Lennart
Johnsson. Donation by IBM: A cluster of one Master and
15 IBM Netfinity 4500R Computers to build a Linux lab.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 

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