SMIL (Swedish:Siffermaskinen i Lund, "The Number Machine in Lund") was afirst-generationcomputer built atLund University inLund,Sweden. SMIL was based on theIAS architecture developed byJohn von Neumann.
Carl-Erik Fröberg belonged to the group of five young Swedish scientists that IVA[clarification needed] sent to the U.S. in 1947–48 to gather information about the early computer development. They then came to strongly influence the development in Sweden. Fröberg visited with Erik Stemme theInstitute for Advanced Study, and John von Neumann's research group. Back in Lund, he played a leading role in the creation of SMIL, which was the first computer developed in Lund and among the first in Sweden. SMIL was introduced in 1956[1][2] and then was in operation until 1970.
In February 1962 SMIL was fitted with a compiler forALGOL 60. The compiler was constructed by Torgil Ekman and Leif Robertson.
Carl-Erik Fröberg was also behind the early emergence ofnumerical analysis as a separate university subject. In this context, he wrote himself and collaborated with others on several textbooks in computer education, for example,Textbook on Numerical Analysis (1962) andTextbook of Algol (1964). These books were widely distributed and translated into several languages.
Parts of SMIL are exhibited atMalmö Technical Museum.
On January 4, 2006, anemulator of SMIL named SMILemu was released with a Java andMac OS X version.[3]
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