RISE SICS (previously Swedish Institute of Computer Science) is a leading research institute for applied information and communication technology in Sweden, founded in 1985. It explores the digitalization of products, services and businesses. In January 2005, SICS had about 88 employees, of whom 77 were researchers, 30 with PhD degrees. , SICS had about 200 employees, of which 160 were researchers, 83 with PhD degrees. The institute is headquartered in the Kista district of

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, with the main office in the Electrum building.

Software

Several well-known software packages have been developed at SICS: *

Contiki Contiki is an operating system for networked, memory-constrained systems with a focus on low-power wireless Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Contiki is used for systems for street lighting, sound monitoring for smart cities, radiation monitori ...

, an

operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

for small-memory embedded devices * Delegent, an authorization server * Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment or DIVE in short * lwIP, a TCP/IP stack for

embedded system An embedded system is a specialized computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system. It is e ...

s * Oz-Mozart, a multi-platform programming system * Nemesis, a concept exokernel

* Protothreads, light-weight stackless threads * Quintus Prolog and SICStus Prolog,

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implementations * Simics, a full-system simulator originally developed at SICS * uIP, a TCP/IP stack for

Academic output

The research at SICS results in approximately 100 refereed publications in

academic journal An academic journal (or scholarly journal or scientific journal) is a periodical publication in which Scholarly method, scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. They serve as permanent and transparent forums for the ...

s, conferences and workshops per year. Around 2-4 SICS researchers receive higher

academic degree An academic degree is a qualification awarded to a student upon successful completion of a course of study in higher education, usually at a college or university. These institutions often offer degrees at various levels, usually divided into und ...

s per year, and 1-3 persons move to academia for

tenure Tenure is a type of academic appointment that protects its holder from being fired or laid off except for cause, or under extraordinary circumstances such as financial exigency or program discontinuation. Academic tenure originated in the United ...

d positions. SICS was ranked as the 15th most acknowledged computer science research institution in the world in an article in the December 2004 issue of the highly esteemed journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'' (often abbreviated ''PNAS'' or ''PNAS USA'') is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal. It is the official journal of the National Academy of Scie ...

(PNAS). SICS is the only Swedish institution included in the list, and is one of two European institutions (the other one is INRIA) alongside 13 well-known American institutions, several of them larger than SICS.

Notable spin-off companies

* Dynarc (1997) * Effnet (1997) * Virtutech (1998) * PipeBeach (1998) * Tacton Systems (1998) - knowledge based solutions for sales and product configuration * BotBox (1999) * Voxi (1999) * VerySolid (2004) * Axiomatics (2006) - security solutions for digital data assets * Asimus (2006) - search technology * Peerialism (2007) - scalable and flexible file storage and video streaming solutions * Gavagai (2008) - scalable and robust representation of semantics of linguistic data

Funding

SICS is owned jointly, 60% by the Swedish government, and 40% by Swedish industry. The government owners are the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Swedish ICT, and the Defence Materiel Administration (FMV). The industry owners are a consortium of

Ericsson (), commonly known as Ericsson (), is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Ericsson has been a major contributor to the development of the telecommunications industry and is one ...

, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), Saab Group, Green Cargo,

Bombardier Transportation Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, with headquarters in Toronto and Berlin. It was one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. ...

, and TeliaSonera. SICS research is funded by the owners, by national funding sources, often Vinnova (the Swedish Government Agency for Innovation Systems) and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), and by industrial collaboration partners. SICS also participates in several European research projects funded by the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the primary Executive (government), executive arm of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with a number of European Commissioner, members of the Commission (directorial system, informall ...

History

RISE SICS was formed in 1985 and is owned by the Swedish Government.

References

External links

*
Tacton home page

Axiomatics homepage

Gavagai homepage

Peerialism home page
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