Bjarne Däcker - "A discussion of basic vs. applied research in the software domain and the creation of Erlang"

This talk will present some of the thinking behind the creation of the Computer Science Laboratory (CS Lab) at Ericsson - one of the technology oriented labs within Ericsson Research. It is at the CS Lab where a group effort in software research resulted in Erlang's birth. The talk will describe some of the projects which lead to Erlang, and when it finally became mainstream within Ericsson, the OTP Erlang middleware project. It will conclude by describing how the technology transfer to the newly created Erlang/OTP unit happened.