  In this article we review results of computer simulation of glasses carried
out using first principles approaches, notably density functional theory. We
start with a brief introduction to this method and compare the pros and cons of
this approach with the ones of simulations with classical potentials. This is
followed by a discussion of simulation results of various glass-forming systems
that have been obtained via ab initio simulations and that demonstrate the
usefulness of this approach to understand the properties of glasses on the
microscopic level.
