Odd Nordland

Senior Research Scientist 

SINTEF Information and Communication Technology
Information security and Safety

+47 735 92 958 (direct line)
+47 913 93 501 (mobile phone)
+47 735 92 977 (fax)

Odd.Nordland@sintef.no
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Last updated on the 10th of March, 2004

Research interests

Projects

Publications, Selected Presentations and Working Papers

Background

Odd Nordland was born in Oslo, grew up in England and Australia and spent 31 years in Germany before returning to his native Norway in 1997.

He studied nuclear physics and computing science at the University of Hamburg, worked as a physics teacher for 5 years and spent 7 years at the North German TÜV in Hamburg as assessor for process control computers in nuclear power stations. This was followed by 10 years at DaimlerChrysler Aerospace in Bremen as configuration manager in the COLUMBUS programme, Europe's contribution to the International Space Station (ISS). Since 1997 he has been working for SINTEF Information and Communication Technology in Trondheim, primarily concerned with safety assessments of railway signalling and interlocking systems throughout Scandinavia.

He has been a member of the European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems (EWICS) since 1983 and was first chairman of the risk analysis subgroup. He is a member of the System Safety Society, the Safety-Critical Systems Club, the Software Reliability & Metrics Club, the British Computer Society's Configuration Management Specialist Group (CMSG) and the Norwegian Network for Safe, Secure and Reliable Software. From 1983 to 1996 he was a member of the mutual committee of the German Electrotechnical Commission DKE and the German Institute for Standardisation DIN which generated the national prestandard DIN V VDE 0801: "Principles for computers in systems with safety tasks".

He is also an external examiner for Programming methods and Systems development at the Norwegian Technical and Scientific University (NTNU) in Trondheim.

See also his CV.

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