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 which 77 were researchers, 30 with PhD degrees. , SICS had about 200 employees, of which 160 were researchers, 83 with

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degrees. The institute is headquartered in the

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district of Stockholm, with the main office in the Electrum building.

Software

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

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for small-memory embedded devices * Delegent, an authorization server * Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment or DIVE in short *

lwIP lwIP (lightweight IP) is a widely used open-source TCP/IP stack designed for embedded systems. lwIP was originally developed by Adam Dunkels at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science and is now developed and maintained by a worldwide netwo ...

, a TCP/IP stack for

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s * Oz-Mozart, a multi-platform programming system *

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, a concept exokernel

* Protothreads, light-weight stackless

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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

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s, conferences and workshops per year. Around 2-4 SICS researchers receive higher academic degrees per year, and 1-3 persons move to academia for

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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

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(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

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, and 40% by Swedish industry. The government owners are the

Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB (RISE) is a Swedish state-owned research institute that collaborates with universities, industry and the public sector. RISE perform industry research and innovation as well as testing and certification. T ...

, Swedish ICT, and the Defence Materiel Administration (FMV). The industry owners are a consortium of

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(ABB),

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, and TeliaSonera. SICS research is funded by the owners, by national funding sources, often

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(the Swedish Government Agency for Innovation Systems) and the

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(SSF), and by industrial collaboration partners. SICS also participates in several European research projects funded by the

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History

RISE SICS was formed in 1985 and is owned by the

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References

External links

*
Tacton home page

Axiomatics homepage

Gavagai homepage

Peerialism home page
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