Mission
The Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SICS, is a non-profit research foundation. SICS mission is to contribute to the competitive strength of Swedish industry
by conducting advanced and focused research in strategic areas of computer science, and actively promoting industrial use of new research ideas
and results in industry and society at large. SICS works in a close collaboration
with industry and the national and international research community.
Research Funding
The core of SICS research is financed by companies associated with Föreningen för Datateknisk Forskning (FDF), the Swedish National
Board for Technical and Industrial Development,
NUTEK, and
state-owned
Ireco Holding AB.
R&D assigments from FDF members and other companies speed up dissemination and
uptake of research results. SICS participates also actively in collaborative
R&D programs:
- national, such as ones funded by NUTEK, KFB, and SITI, and
- international, such as Esprit and ACTS funded by the European Commission, and
Real World Computing funded by the Japanese government.
SICS collaborates with high-tech SMEs.
Turn-over 1998: 71 MSEK.
Staff
In January 1999 SICS had a research staff of 85, thereof 30 PhDs.
Research Results
- approx. 70 refereed papers and articles in international journals and conferences
per year.
- 2-4 research degrees (doctor and/or licentiate) per year
- 1-3 people move to academia for tenured positions (professor, lecturer) per year
Industrial output
- on average 10 people per year move to the industry
- transfer of SICS projects and patents to the industry, including spin-off companies
- distribution of software
Research Organization
Real-time Computer and Networks Architectures
Software Methodology for Distributed Systems
Human-Machine Interaction for Distributed Systems
SICS is a member of the following organisations
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