software have utterly failed. Instead of developing a body of software that’s getting better and better, he says we’ve been creating programs that are brittle, incomprehensible, and nearly impossible to change. Our e orts to solve this problem with open standards and the free ow of information have been misguided. According to him, we need to ap point a software czar, someone vested with absolu...

In this talk I will agree with Harry Potter that one should "never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it keeps its brain". I’ll argue that humans need to locate intelligence, and that this issue poses problems for the disappearing computer. Bodies are the best possible example of located intelligence, of course, and interacting with another person is best done when...

Since the term choreography for capturing the publicly observable message exchanges between integration partners was coined, choreography technology evolved significantly. Today, the diversity of choreography languages is high. Up to now, choreography languages have been categorized by distinguishing between implementation specific and implementation independent choreographies as well as intera...

Edited by Alessandro Minelli and Thomas Pradeu, Towards a Theory of Development gathers essays by biologists and philosophers, which display a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The discussions not only cover the state of art, but broaden our vision of what development includes and provide pointers for future research. Interestingly, all contributors agree that explanations should not just ...

The guidelines for White Papers for Berkeley-Stanford CE&M workshop suggest deriving research needs from the practical needs of the industry. Generally, this is a sound approach. However, I would like to propose that at this particular moment, thinking in the opposite direction is as, or even more important. My vision is that during the next decade, the formation of a theory of construction wil...