Editing Kristen Nygaard (section)

==Later career==
In the first half of the 1980s, Nygaard was chairman of the steering committee of the Scandinavian research program System Development and Profession Oriented Languages (SYDPOL), coordinating research and supporting working groups in system development, language research, and [[artificial intelligence]]. Also in the 1980s, he was chairman of the steering committee for the Cost-13 (European Common Market Commission)-financed research project on the extensions of profession-oriented languages necessary when artificial intelligence and information technology are becoming part of professional work.

Nygaard's research from 1995 to 1999 was related to [[distributed systems]]. He was the leader of General Object-Oriented Distributed Systems (GOODS), a three-year [[Norwegian Research Council]]-supported project starting in 1997, aiming at enriching object-oriented languages and system development methods by new basic concepts that make it possible to describe the relation between layered and/or distributed programs and the computer hardware and people carrying out these [[computer program]]s. The GOODS team also included Haakon Bryhni, Dag Sjøberg, and Ole Smørdal.

Nygaard's final research interests were studies of the introductory teaching of programming, and creating a process-oriented conceptual platform for [[informatics]]. These subjects are to be developed in a new research project named Comprehensive Object-Oriented Learning (COOL), together with several international test sites. He was giving lectures and courses on these subjects in Norway and elsewhere. In November 1999, he became chair of an advisory committee on Broadband Communication for the Norwegian Department for Municipal and Regional Affairs. He held a part-time position at [[Simula Research Laboratory]] from 2001, when the research institute was opened.