Applications and Technologies for Maritime and Offshore Industries

Abstract

Autokon, a CAD/CAM system for ships, was one of the most important early Norwegian applications. We describe the background for the Autokon project and its results. We will specifically follow three technology threads that we have called Data-centred Architectures, Mathematical Modelling, and Personal Information Systems, where the last one includes distribution and component based architectures. An important part of the Autokon background is the history of the earliest computers in Britain and Norway. We therefore start with a brief history of computing