System Simulation

__NOTOC__{{Infobox company

| name = System Simulation

| industry = software engineering

| founded = 1970

| hq_location = Covent Garden, Central London, England

| image = 12-13 Clerkenwell Green.jpg

| image_caption = System Simulation office in London

}}

System Simulation Ltd (SSL) is a software engineering company now specialising in text and multimedia information systems, based in Clerkenwell, central London, England, and founded in 1970 by George Mallen.{{cite book| url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-50620-8 | title=Creative Simulations: George Mallen and the Early Computer Arts Society | editor-first=Catherine | editor-last=Mason | editor-link=Catherine Mason | publisher=Springer Nature | series=Springer Series on Cultural Computing | doi=10.1007/978-3-031-50620-8 | isbn=978-3-031-50619-2 | date=2024 | pages=vii,2 }}

Under the chairmanship of John Lansdown, following collaborative research work at the Royal College of Art, System Simulation carried out pioneering computer animation work, applying computer graphics techniques in TV and film creating many advertising sequences, the flight deck instrumentation readouts on the Nostromo spaceship for Ridley Scott's Alien,{{cite book| last=Mason | first=Catherine| author-link=Catherine Mason | title=A Computer in the Art Room: The origins of British computer arts 1950–80 | year=2008 | publisher=JJG Publishing | location=Hindringham NR21 0DP | isbn=978-1-899163-89-2 | pages=223–235}} and the animation of Martin Lambie-Nairn's original Channel 4 logo.{{cite book| last=Mason | first=Catherine| author-link=Catherine Mason | title=A Computer in the Art Room: The origins of British computer arts 1950–80 | year=2008 | publisher=JJG Publishing | location=Hindringham NR21 0DP | isbn=978-1-899163-89-2 | pages=235–237}}

More recently System Simulation has specialised in museum information systems, commercial and archival image library systems, information management and delivery for publishers, news services and professional and commercial organisations. MuseumIndex+, the museum information management system, supports collections management, digital archives and interactive public access.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}} Clients include the British Museum, London Transport Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Getty Images,{{cite web | url=http://cordis.europa.eu/infowin/acts/analysys/products/thematic/multimed/document/h_getty.htm | title=Hulton Getty On-line}} SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network) and Culture24. They develop content management systems, and CD-ROM/Web products and services for the publishing sector and for information service providers.

The company provides technical support for the online services of Culture24, the UK's leading virtual museum resource.[http://www.culture24.org.uk/credits Culture24 Site Credits], Culture24, retrieved 7 December 2009.

The company has often hosted meetings of the Computer Arts Society.[http://www.computer-arts-society.org/Programme/ CAS Programme], Computer Arts Society, UK.