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Pelle Ehn, is professor emeritus at the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden. He has for more than fifty years been involved in the research field of collaborative and participatory design and in bridging design and information technology.
Research projects include DEMOS from the seventies on information technology and work place democracy, UTOPIA from the eighties on user participation and skill based design, ATELIER from turn of the century onarchitecture and technology for creative environments, and during the last demade Malmö Living Labs, an open environment for democratic design experiments.
His often collaborative publications include Emancipation and the Design of Information Systems (1974), Computers and Democracy (1987), Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts (1988), Manifesto for a Digital Bauhaus (1998), Design Things (2011), Making Futures (2014), Democratic Design Experiments (2015), Design/Politics (2017) and Participatory Design and Learning as I found it (1970-2015) (2017).
Tone Bratteteig is Professor at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on Participatory Design, the design and use of information systems, and socio-technical perspectives on digital technologies, with particular emphasis on mutual learning and collaborative design processes. Her work explores how people, organisations, and technologies interact in practice, and how participatory approaches can support the development of meaningful and sustainable digital systems. Tone was active in the Florence project and participated in the SYDPOL programme. She worked with Kristen Nygaard in research and teaching at the Department of Informatics. She has contributed extensively to research on user participation in design, use practices, design with digital materials, and the organisational and societal effects of technological systems.
Birger-Møller-Pedersen is a professor emeritus at Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.
His research area is object-oriented programming and modeling, including both modeling and programming languages. Together with Bent Bruun Kristensen, Ole Lehrmann Madsen, and Kristen Nygaard he was one of the creators of the Beta programming language.
At the Norwegian Computing Center (1977 - 1995) he was, in addition, involved in the last generation of SIMULA implementations, based upon an intermediate S-(byte)code.
With Dag Belsnes he defined the first object-oriented extension of SDL, the Specification and Description Language of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and from 1989 he was involved in the standardization of this within ITU together with Øystein Haugen. For this work they received the Telenor Nordic Research Prize (extra prize) in 1997. This work was part of both the Mjølner project and the SISU project, a project dissiminating object-oriented techniques to Norwegian companies.
At Telenor Research (1995-1997), he was working both with object-orientation in both network management and intelligent networks.
At Ericsson Research (1997-2004), he contributed to the second version (UML 2) of Unified Modeling Language within the Object Management Group, OMG, .
2004-2014 he was professor at Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.
Alan Kay says: "No one owes more to his research community than I do", and especially to the ARPA/Parc research community of the 60s and 70s. His recognition includes the ACM Turing Award.
Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++ as well as the author of The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition), A Tour of C++ (3rd edition), Programming: Principles and Practice using C++ (3rd Edition), and many popular and academic publications. Dr. Stroustrup is a professor at Columbia University in New York City. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and an IEEE, ACM, and CHM fellow. He received the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize, the IEEE Computer Society's 2018 Computer Pioneer Award, and the 2017 IET Faraday Medal. His research interests include distributed systems, design, programming techniques, software development tools, and programming languages. He is actively involved in the ISO standardization of C++. He holds a masters in Mathematics from Aarhus University, where he is an honorary professor, and a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University, where he is an honorary fellow of Churchill College. Personal website: www.Stroustrup.com.
Morten Kyng is a professor of Computer Science, Aarhus University.
Together with Kristen Nygaard and Pelle Ehn, Morten has been active in the development of the Scandinavian school of participatory design since 1973.
In recognition of this work Morten was in 2001, as the first European, appointed to the ACM CHI Academy for leadership in the field of computer-human interaction.
In 1996 he became managing director of the new Danish National Centre for IT Research under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. The task was to bridge the gap between university research and industry.
In 1998 the Danish National Research Councils asked him to set up a national center for multimedia research as a network between existing universities.
In 1999 he was appointed director of the new IT University West, a collaboration between the Danish universities outside of Zealand. Within its first two years of operation IT University West developed more than 20 new educational programs.
In 2003 Morten returned to Aarhus University as professor of pervasive computing.
Morten has created and managed a dozen national and international research projects including the Scandinavian project Utopia on participatory design.
Ole Lehrmann Madsen is a professor of Computer Science, Aarhus University. From 1999-2019 he was also the CEO of the Alexandra Institute A/S, which is a Danish Research and Technology Organization within information technology.
His area of research is object-oriented software systems, including programming, modeling, languages, and software development environments. Together with Bent Bruun Kristensen, Birger Møller-Pedersen and Kristen Nygaard he was one of the creators of the Beta programming language.
He was project manager for the Danish part of the Mjølner project (1986-91) and the development of the Mjølner Beta software development environment. He was a co-founder and chairman of the board for Mjølner Informatics ltd., which was based on Beta and the Mjølner project until it was acquired by Norlys in 2022.
He has a Ph.D. from Aarhus University in computer science. He has previously been a research associate at CSLI at Stanford University (1984-85) and senior research associate at Sun Labs in Mountain View, California (1994-95). He has been member of several research councils and vice-chair of the DG Connect Advisor Forum for the European Commission regarding Horizon 2020 (2013-17).
