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This week SINTEF ICT organised an international conference about  timetabling – and football.

Andy Booth, a specialist in environmental technology and senior scientist at SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, has been appointed to the Norwegian Board of Technology.

Andy Booth, a specialist in environmental technology and senior scientist at SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, has been appointed to the Norwegian Board of Technology.

When the elderly suffer falls, many agencies should be alerted so that help can arrive as quickly as possible. So researchers, students and physiotherapists are trying to connect fall alarms to social media.

When hospitals group patient rooms into small clusters, nurses have more time for their patients. But the design of these ‘bed clusters’ is important.

“If we had been footballers, this would have been the equivalent of a Barcelona super-star joining our team,” says SINTEF research scientist Sigurd Sannan about a recent “transfer” in the world of energy research.

A delegation from the Peruvian industrial company TASA, visited SINTEF this week in order to get better acquainted with the group's broad marine expertise. The visit ended with a signing of Memorandum of Understanding for future cooperation between...

Underwater operations in aquaculture cages with a diameter of 157 meters, is time consuming and dangerous work. Now researchers from SINTEF is developing an underwater robot that can perform systematic and effective cleaning and inspection and also...

Iterative software development is highly suitable for the Scandinavian style of working, according to SINTEF researchers Tore Dybå and Torgeir Dingsøyr.

Who is successful in, and what is achieved by, step-by-step software development, the IT industry’s countermeasure against fiascos? A review article by two SINTEF researchers has become a “bible” in this field.

The design of “bed clusters” is important.

Monday morning and you’re in a hurry. On your way out, you check your pockets. Money. Mobile phone. Where are the car keys? A quick text message, and the keys let you know that they are under the papers on the dining table.

Research on management at Hydro has brought social anthropologist and SINTEF researcher Emil A. Røyrvik (39) SINTEF’s Award for Excellence in Research.

Research on management at Hydro has brought social anthropologist and SINTEF researcher Emil A. Røyrvik (39) SINTEF’s Award for Excellence in Research.

Fire tests on a simulated North Sea “problem platform” have left SINTEF NBL with a unique laboratory module, developed in-house, that will raise fire-protection standards at sea.