This is the last post ever at my ITU homepage. For future communications, go to the maturing BigMother.dk site. Ciao forever or see you there [18.10.05]

I received my new espresso machine late this afternoon, a Rancilio Silvia which I think I will think of as beautiful when I get to know it more intimately because of its heavy duty semi-pro make and appearance. Now the next days (weeks?) will go by as I learn the creature to know. The first couple of test cups has been awful - just as told and expected. I hope I do not end up with the urgent need of roasters, grinders, tampers and all the other nerdy 'indispensable' equipment of people like the coffeegeeks. [09.08.05]

Oh, I know it has been ages since I last updated this page. Sorry! I know what that means to the frequency of regular visitors. It's a regular insult to you people showing me the honor of stopping by once in a while. But with summer and all (including changing computer) I still think it's a misdemeanor.
So let's get to it. What has happened meanwhile? Well I've shipped of the upcoming Actics.com social software/web application for programming in Romania (eastern outsourcing). I'll let you know when you can start managing your ethical life and exercising your moral habitus online. And we've begun research for our first total cold-call strike against Danish top business in order to set up presentation meetings (when they see our products....). So presently I'm actually full time salesman. I love where this job is taking me ;-)
Among my friends, the continuously victorious WhoMadeWho is finally getting into gear on the web. But you should follow the site carefully I've been told, as some quite skillful design researchers (I think it was) is on the job of creating a very cool experience. And speaking of cool, since they've started playing at VIP MTV parties, the funny lumberjack video they shot in Germany has been ditched as to lame. But Thomas's last web concept, the online photo sharing service 23people is having its official launch party next Thursday in Copenhagen. I wish them luck (but I already know they probably won't need it). Jens Martin has decided that his fabulous designer bike company Biomega is now mature enough to manage on its own, and he has created a more encompassing design firm with the name BiomegaN. I'm looking forward to follow their projects. I've had a sneak preview of their first - still unofficial - apartment project at Holmen in Copenhagen, which is intended to create a new form for private accommodation and guaranteed to create some cool fuzz. More on that later. Jens just had his first ever birthday and what a day he had my little man. Well, I think it's all for know. See you later. [09.08.05]

My good and trusted friend Miguel Sicart confessed last night over a very nice glass of New Zealand white wine, that he's seriously considering swapping from Mac to Vaio/Linux. At first chocked, I listened to his arguments (with the increasing obscuring and distancing of the user from the underlying processes in the OS X) and frustration, I had to admit, that I've become a little reserved myself lately towards the cult of Mac. Witnessing the number (and percentage) of mac-users at Reboot made me almost sick with a nagging feeling, that using mac is now more than ever a matter of religion (style, social code whatever) than shear functionality. This probably sound naive and too obvious for you cold souls who've said it all along, but I really enjoy the FUNCTIONALITY of Mac and iPod which is inarguably way better and not least more pleasant than the ugly Windows interface. But I have started to hate all the related symbols so much, that it has started inflicting my conviction. I have thus two wishes: 1) A new shell for my Powerbook without the logo (or at least a sticker to cover the apple saying 'No code'), 2) a new movement called 'Mac-users against Mac-hype'. [29.06.05]

I guess its time I reveal a little more on the nature of my work in Actics Ltd. Actics basically builds on a new and carefully developed ethical system (developed by philosophers and economists from the think tank Kesera, of which I'm a member myself) including tools for identifying core values and proxies (the ones influenced by the actions of an ethical agent and whose opinion the agent cares for) and not least ways to operational the ethical outlook of any kind of ethical agent, i.e. from individuals over companies to transnational organizations. I might sound a little evangelic or as just another counseling scheme, but we're playing around with ideas and social software that could turn ethics (or rather Actics) into a new big social co-creation phenomenon. Right now, I'm designing our online services and tools; more specifically I'm working on the conceptual foundations of our web solution based on ideas from new studies of communities and reputation economy. Our web systems comprises free services for individuals and commercial features for companies and should provide Actics with a lot of data for commercially use in our company services (what does people think of company X's production methods or the latest CSR initiative of organization Y, and which suggestions for actions can users provide for company Z?) and users with the possibility to improve ethically themselves, form communities around normative issues and get influence on the behavior of large organizations and companies. We use a mixture of reputation techniques and appeal for the urge to chance their world as incitement for users to share knowledge and provide normative feedback for each other and larger ethical agents like companies and we will try to exploit the widely acknowledged power of communities and customers in general to convince our commercial customers to play along for mutual benefit. Think Wikis, blogs, Epinion and e.thePeople combined with a solid ethical system and new tools to manage dynamic evaluations and support enaction. Does this sound like a sect with mob-like business methods? Well that is precisely how we present ourselves on our business cards ;-) [24.06.05] Bonus links of relevance:
The Economist April 31'st: Crowned at last
Business Week June 20'th: The Power of Us
Blog on new book on the power of communities: Communities Dominate Brands

Oh yes, I turned 31 today. The weather was beautiful, my guests (for brunch) hang out all day, and I forgot listening to Danish Radio Harddisken on our Sound Design workshop. Jeppe wrote a happy birthday mail from Barcelona telling me that WhoMadeWho totally blew away the Sonar audience last night. I'm telling you, these guys are coming to a venue near you, and you'd better be prepared [19.06.05]

It's no secret, that I am quite ill (on the paper at least, I feel great). Louise and I receive a lot of compassion due to that fact. Today, I received one more card with encouraging messages, the fifth I think, from my good friends in Bethlehem PA, professor Mark Bickhard and his family. This card's words are worth sharing. It says:

everything will be okay in the end
if it's not okay
it's not the end

This is going to be my credo until I'm cured. Thank you Bickhards [14.06.05]

Yes! Finally I got my hands on proper studio (promo) material from the überhyped new Danish band WhoMadeWho yesterday. WhoMadeWho happens to feature my very good and old friend Jeppe, AKA Yebba, on guitar and vocals. I've had material on my pod for a long time now (and contributed much to the hype myself I admit), but this is properly produced versions of the songs. I'm exited! I heard WhoMadeWho live for the first time during the Project-Fox and I was blown away, just like everybody else throughout Europe seemingly have been. Live WhoMadeWho bring to mind some of the greatest trios of rock history coupled with the sound and attack of LCD Soundsystem and Daft Punk. Their album, which is more conceptual and subtle (made for remixing!), will be out sometime this summer (it's being postponed all the time), but there are several remixes and demos circulating the web. I hereby guarantee a great buzz. [14.06.05]

No, it's not until next Sunday, that Harddisken will feature our Sound Design workshop, the journalist from Harddisken told me during Reboot. Meanwhile I've been trying to edit BigMother, but the content management system that is being designed for BigMother, doesn't work properly yet (and Marius has gone on vacation for two weeks). And while at Reboot I have been asked to participate in another blog with some very interesting people. I am looking forward to reveal more on that project. [12.06.05]

Sitting among the audience at the Reboot 7.0 conference I suddenly feel a strong urge to be online-realtime-sharing-blogging-whatever (not that I'm bored....). I'm going to talk about Biomimetics later this afternoon and I need to revamp a standard presentation for this audience and the capable organizers of Reboot has provided for WIFI and - more importantly for my dinosaur Powerbook - power outlets at the audience seats and thus enabling me to work. Anyway, rumors have it, that our Sound Design workshop will be among the sunday show of Harddisken on Danish radio (their reporters are off course here today). [10.06.05]

The Sound Design workshop Sunday was a great success, I think. Nothing logistically worked properly (or at least not without our careful diligence), due to non-existing experience with conferences at the venue (scandal!). But most importantly, the participating sound design enthusiasts were exited that this is happening and the vibes were constructive and optimistic. We were close to 40 people and filled up the little beautiful loft at the School of Architecture close to the harbor. Actually, my criteria of success is what happens now, if the workshop sparks off a process of development, consolidation and maturation for commercial sound design. Follow the developments at the temporary forum at Diginet.org. [01.06.05]

I gave a talk on Learning Lab Denmark yesterday on future trends of self-organizing design entitled From Cartesian to Darwinian design. The audience were very kind, engaged and well informed, so I had a very good time. So good, actually, that I now consider spending more time systemizing my ideas on new kinds of design such as social design. A kind of kind of design which is - by the way - beautifully exemplified by Actics. For an introduction check out the paper that was accepted for the IN THE MAKING conference, but which I decided to improve and submit to a design journal instead. Comments are very much appreciated as it is work in progress (From Product to Produces - Design In the Making). [24.05.05]

Things are moving ahead. The design of the bigMother.dk backend is slowly getting into place and hopefully I can soon start frequent posting. Our planning of the workshop on sound design is materializing with more and more interesting people and companies showing up and an hectic buzz slowly arising. And as for Actics, I'm still buried too deep in to dos to say anything qualified about perspectives, but it's fun and stimulating. [19.05.05]

Sunday, I tried to oppose the never ending stupidity of Ray Kurzweil and Douglas Lenat in an interview with the Danish Newspaper Berlingske Tidende. The latest idea from these two notoriously fantastic futurists is the notion of an historical 'singularity' (stolen from physics, probably to add some hype momentum to their wild shots), beyond which mankind will be usurped by AI's. Yes, you got it right. The oldest of the SciFi memes in action once again. But to remain the craziest among madmen, Lenat/Kurzweil even speed up the historical pace and predict that the turning point will take place in 10 years time. Alas! At least the high frequency of the SciFi horror outbreaks (due to a very bad public memory or perhaps a cultural craving?) keep humble philosophers like me occupied. [11.05.05]

I've finished my first working week as R&D responsible in the upstart Actics. As a true upstart we began operations by clearing and cleaning a cellar. Even though the number and nature of pending tasks seem overwhelming right now, I look forward to dig into all the interesting things to do and I'm slowly getting into the enthusiastic mode. This could get very good. [06.05.05]

I have decided not to resubmit my paper for the Nordes conference but save it for a journal. I have to focus now and besides I wasn't willing to pay over 300€ to participate myself (I forgot that part when I submitted the paper). I am still going to head the Sound design workshop in connection to the Nordes conference though and it is beginning to look quite promising. Be there or be so today. [05.05.05]

I need a new cell phone. But with the consequent neglect of decent design in phones available in Europe and the annoying camera in all available I'll probably stick to my old Ericsson T39. Or else I have to move to Japan where they seem to design phones, such as the Mark Newson's Talby or Penck by KDDI, for other than SMS frenzy teenagers. Why is it that phone producers don't find it worthwhile to produce simple and beautiful phones? [04.05.05]

Now Kram/Weisshaar is unveiling more about their evolving tables. The idea is very close to what I presented in my dissertation. And the bastards are even putting the tables into production as I planned to investigate doing with my couch. [26.04.05]

During all the recent fuzz, I forgot to mention that Thomas asked me weeks ago to present some of my ideas from my dissertation at this summer's Reboot meeting. I'm naturally thrilled and very proud to take part of this crucial forum (although I didn't know exactly how prestigious these meetings were before I started getting respects from my friends who had seen my name on the speaker list. Hence the delayed news) [21.04.05]

The present entry witnesses that I survived the first round of Chemotherapy. It wasn't to bad to be honest and my blood (and body in general) has responded very satisfactorily to the treatment. I have kept my hair, my blood values are normalizing and I feel fairly good. Now I have no excuse not to take up some of the projects mentioned below where I left them: i.e. write the foreword to the next issue of the Kesera debate series, prepare a book review of John Thackara's new book In the Bubble , finishing the Turing translation, prepare my paper for the design conference, plan the Sound Design workshop in May and continue the design of BigMother.dk. And oh, by the way, I am with all reasonable certainty beginning officially (i.e. paid!) as R&D Director of Actics Ltd. May 1'st (a preliminary introduction to Actics. A flashy website is under construction). You will probably get to know a lot more about the Actics project on these pages (and hopefully elsewhere). [21.04.05]

Today, an interview on some of my ideas on future Careware technologies is in the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen. The article reveals the nature of my new web portal project BigMother.dk, which I have kept a secret here since it is still being designed. Given my newly acquired diagnosis, official launch of the BigMother site will unfortunately be postponed. The article also announces to the scientific cultural debate on surveillance that I'm participating in Monday April 11'th as part of the splendid initiative Videnskabscafeen by my friend and colleague Gert Balling. [08.04.05]

My paper for the First Nordic design conference IN THE MAKING was accepted, but I will have to see whether I manage to submit it in an improved version May 1'st given my new physical situation (see below). [06.04.05]

I've dragged Karsten Kjems from Sonic Branding into the planning of the Sound Design initiative and our upcoming workshop May 29'th to support Henriette while I'm inactive due to illness. I'll probably still participate via mail and more full bodied later. [04.04.05]

Friday April 1'st, I was diagnosed leuchaemic and now I have to live with this new identity for years (hopefully). Luckily (!), I suffer from a chronic version, which basically means that it develops steadily but slowly. It also means, that I'm not noticeably ill right now (a little tired that's all). Given my diagnosis (CLL to be precise), my age and excellent overall physical condition (mental notwithstanding ;-), perspectives are pretty decent. So I'm calm and fairly optimistic. I will begin treatment Tuesday April 12'th, so I will probably not be too active updating this site for a couple of weeks after that. But survive I will. I have too many things to accomplish and a family to watch after. [03.04.05]

Seemingly, the prominent design resource Kram/Weisshaar has developed code to capture the 'Design DNA' of tables. Even though information is sparse on the precise process, readers familiar with my dissertation work will know, that I investigate similar ideas for a sofa (and furniture in general). Coincidence, or am I just submerged in the spirit of our time? [25.03.05]

Our workshop proposal Sound Design: A new Frontier for Nordic Design? has been accepted. The workshop - or rather one-day conference - will take place May 29'th in Copenhagen in relation to the first Nordic design conference IN THE MAKING. Stay tuned for information on this fine arrangement officially launching my planned innovation strategy for Danish Sound Design. [23.03.05]

Ahhh - it's wonderful to reside in Copenhagen again. The new Fox-project curated by Volkswagen launches a hotel, a club and and a studio in Copenhagen in April created by young talents among street artists, designers, cooks and hotel professionals. Finally, I will have a hotel to direct my foreign friends that is close to where I live and (probably) not overpriced but extremely nice. And I got to visit the club soon. [11.03.05]

The secret new website I've been announcing is under way. My good friend and former colleague Marius Hartmann is currently designing and constructing the page and hopefully I'll be able to launch it in ten days when this site implodes... I've also initiated negotiations on employment with a top secret and very interesting start up business. Stay tuned to your long wave radio for secret messages on the development of all the projects. [10.03.05]

I've stumbled upon a truly interesting bottom up Ambient Communication system Yellow Arrows which enables everybody to leave their semantic fingerprints wherever for others to read whenever. This technology is a very good example of the Generation C (for 'content') megatrend promoted by Trend Watching [06.03.05]

Finally, the new issue of Vodafone's online magazine Receiver on mobile culture is available. Go and check it out [05.03.05]

I decided to submit a paper for the coming Nordic design conference IN THE MAKING together with a workshop proposal (mentioned below). The paper is on a range of issues relating to future design processes aiming to bring about dynamic artifacts that continuously develop with and respond to use. I argue for a new conceptualization of designing as guidance of open ended processes rather than the creation of finished products and point to the likely role of designers in increasingly networked design processes. Moreover I suggest new kinds of production required for dynamic artifacts, and I discuss challenges in branding continually changing devices. [04.03.05]

I have started translating Alan Turing's seminal piece Computing Machinery and Intelligence into Danish together with an old colleague Gert Balling for a new anthology with classics in the IT literature. Funny how I never realized how awful the text was written when I read it years ago but now we're struggling to make sense of the text. [02.03.05]

Yesterday, I picked up the printed copies of my dissertation and it was no thrill with is boring standardized cover page. Well, printed Ph.D. dissertations are mostly a formality so I didn't expect to make a living from selling copies anyway. I was actually at ITU for a planning meeting with digital sound design curator Henriette Moos, presently Knowledge Director at Diginet Øresund , about our proposal for a workshop on Sound Design in relation to the upcoming IN THE MAKING Nordic design conference in Copenhagen in May. Stay tuned for news on our Sound Design initiative [01 .03.05]

I've bought a new domain and soon this site is history. Without ruining the excitement I can unveil that the new site will contain a collective blog on the philosophy of design and technology. [14.02.05]

The notorious John Thackara is coming up with a new book in March titledIn the Bubble - Designing in a Complex world, which is going to be interesting to read. Especially because Thackare seems to be completely congenial to my main points in the dissertation when he states:

"As we suffuse the world with complex technical systems—on top of the natural and social systems already here—old-style top-down, outside-in design simply won’t work. The days of the celebrity solo designer are over. Complex systems are shaped by all the people who use them, and in this new era of collaborative innovation, designers are having to evolve from being the individual authors of objects, or buildings, to being the facilitators of change among large groups of people."

Thackare argues at length for social design in the Papanek tradition, which is quite sympathetic but not new. However, if we manage to merge the social approach with the 'user centered' focus among executives and policymakers we could gain a little. [01.02.05]

Once again, MIT Media Lab is embarking on research the rest of us can only dream about. Their Reality Mining project aims to utilize mobile and pervasive technologies to extract invariant patterns from our complex social behavior. Enriching our understanding of otherwise elusive and complex phenomena by mining rich data sets from wireless technology was exactly one of my long term ambitions of with the DELCA Ghost project when we initiated it in 2003. Commercially, this marriage between data mining and wireless technology will become very hot. [31.01.05]

Well, it's election season in Denmark. Luckily, we haven't got any TV signal (due to interesting procedures form our cable provider), so I'm left to auto-filtered information on the web. Christian Friis Bach is a good candidate. [25.01.05]

I have just - reluctantly - handed in a so called final version of my dissertation for print. Even though I know, that it is an open dynamic system, like everything interesting in this world and will never be 'final'. On the other hand, it's nice to move on to new projects. It's available for download here. [24.01.05]

The Danish innovation, brand and design bureau Kontrapunkt has made their new award wining typeface available for free and I'm trying it out on tmy homepage [21.01.05]

One god Apple news a day, keeps the PC at bay. Now this is going to be very interesting. [19.01.05]

It seems like Wired published a piece on Biomimetics last year in november without interviewing yours truly. Outrageous! [17.01.05]

Now I'm both officially and in effect job seeking. May the force be with me. [05.01.05]

I just received these depressing considerations on the the alleged moral superiority of President George W. Bush from my good friend professor Mark Bickhard:

"Consider the morality of:

Leading the US into war on false pretenses.
Cooking intelligence interpretations so as to obtain the interpretations wanted to support predetermined courses of action — to “obtain” those false pretenses.
Diverting attention and massive resources from the war on terror.
Dismissing the advice of the best military minds (and dismissing the people too) concerning attacking Iraq, at the cost of utter chaos and deteriorating conditions that have cost thousands of lives and have massively boosted the recruitment of Islamic terrorists.
Deliberately violating basic principles of law and warfare.
Insulting essentially the entire world (even pre-9-11), and isolating the United States as it has never been in the last century at least.
Removing inhibitions on obtaining assault weapons.
Stifling stem cell research, with its vast promise, both scientific and therapeutic.
Inserting government spying into multiple details of private life.
Running as a centrist uniter of the country and of the US with the world, and doing exactly the opposite, in massive ways, in both the country and the world.
Creating a national debt of over a trillion dollars, with its grotesque consequences for the present, and for future generations." [08.11.04]

We have just elected the most immoral President of my lifetime. He makes Nixon and Clinton look like choir boys. Self-certain, arrogant, revealed-truth religious “morality” is always more dangerous and more evil than simple avarice, lust, or criminality. Hitler came to power and ruled Germany legally. The greatest threat to the world today is religious fundamentalism, of whatever stripe.

Yesterday I found myself seated in a UFO-like water reservoir hovering above Malmö (Sweden) together with 5 other panelists discussing various fictive issues in a futuristic and highly conceptual show on Danish Radio P1 called "Spillet om fremtiden" (≈ The future at stake) supposedly taking place year 2034. The theme of the particular show, the fourth out of seven planned shows, was 'Cyberspace' and we discussed (or rather fabulated about) among other topics: consumer swarm riots, ideological large scale hacker attacks and web mediated simulated sex. The show is to be broadcatsed Sunday November 21'st but the first show in the series is broadcasted Sunday October 31'st. [25.10.04]

Springer Verlag has accepted to publish my paper "The Genealogy of Biomimetics: Half a Century's Quest for Dynamic IT" in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Get the paper here. [11.10.04]

Different publications on biomimetics is coming up from NASA and MIT Press. However, I think they are one step behind in understanding biomimetics as a new approach within the classical understanding of design instead of a revolutionary dynamic way of designing. I ought to get my dissertation published fast ;-) A version still (slowly) under improvement can be found here (comments appreciated). [18.09.04]

I defended my dissertation Tuesday September 7'th and passed with a nice conclusion from the committee:

Mikkel Holm Sørensen offers a substantial and intellectually stimulating contribution to our understanding of biomimetic IT design. His ability to enable useful and detailed discussion of philosophical grounding behind these technologies is seen as a major contribution of his work.

I guess I am now philosopher in the second degree: Philosopher2 (both Master and Doctor of philosophy). I hope it's a harmless condition. [09.09.04]

The DELCA Ghosts was featured this weekend in DR Hardisken, a radioshow on technology and the future. [30.08.04]

I will defend my dissertation September 7'th. Abstract and the current version of my dissertation can be downloaded here. I am looking forward to the discussion and hope that the opponents are constructive and fair. [25.08.04]

Jens has arrived!! Friday August 6´th Louise gave birth to our son Jens. He's a wonderful boy that is currently taking up all our time. [12.08.04]

I am currently working on a resubmission of a journal paper on agency together with professor Tom Ziemke and a preliminary public version of my dissertation. Both texts will be on the homepage in short time. [24.06.04]

Unfortunately, I didn't get funding from the Danish Research Council this time (although ITU took 25% of the funds!). I will continue seeking out possibilities to fund my work together with my DELCA colleagues, both from public funds and commercial partners. However, it means that I am not affiliated with ITU anymore. So this page will probably get a new address soon. [17.16.04]

I am slowly getting into gear again after a couple of weeks of debriefing. I have some meetings in relation to DELCA or other projects to prepare and I will need to start applying for money and jobs in general. Hopefully there will be more to write shortly. [27.05.04]

I HAVE HANDED IN MY DISSERTATION TODAY! Thanks to Louise for patience and Guaranas for energy. [06.05.04]

Troels has remade the DELCA Ghost project site with a new look and a slightly different structure. Check it out! [27.04.04]

My colleague Troels has detected some quotations on the DELCA Ghost project on the web. Some might need a fair scrolling (or ctrl+f: 'DELCA') [10.04.04]:

apotropaic.org
randomurl.com
lekkerdesign.com
blogspot.com
infocult.typepad.com
cofradia.org
livejournal

So much music - so little time. Copenhagen is invaded by good music this weekend, but I am much to busy to enjoy it. Saturday night Gramski Beat and Beautiful Day, two very good jazz-rock infusions will play at Stengade 30. The fabulous Dub consortium Rhythm and Sound play Sunday same place. Tuesday Four Tet will play FOR FREE! at Rust. Alas.. [25.03.04]

I am very busy writing up my dissertation, some submissions and a couple of re-submissions and a much to complex process of applying for funding for my post-Ph.D. career. Stay tuned, something might happen along the way. [16.03.04]

The feedback from the DELCA article in the Danish paper continues to surprise us. We have had offers to team up with law students, mexican and american students have been inquiring about joining the project, we have been asked to present our ghosts at the Sundance Film Festival, the Butler profile had been viewed 5466 times after a couple of days and the DELCA site has been visited over 20.000 times in a week (I haven't seen the latest figures). [08.03.04]

The news about the DELCA Ghosts found its way to the underworld of IT and ended up at the geeky Slashdot yesterday. Since we have had thousands of hits on the DELCA webpage, we have received numerous emails from curios people and prospect students and 155 joined the newsgroup. What an effect from an article in Danish newspaper. [04.03.04]

The DELCA project is featured on the front page (actually the two first pages) of the cultural section of the Danish newspaper Politiken today (online version). The article captures our ambitions and the essence of the project quite well I think and the pictures are nice and congenial. Now we can just hope that the Danish Research Council decide to support the groundbreaking work with loads of money. [03.03.04]

Kraftwerk. I just had to add some colors to my homepage after the aesthetic dry-cleaning last night at the Kraftwerk concert in Copenhagen. [15.02.04]

Robot rights. Interview from 13.02.04 with DR P1 systems is online (in Danish). [15.02.04]

Now with improved formula: My homepage has been revamped. Probably motivated by the sudden interest caused by my interview this morning on DR on the future rights of intelligent (or rather sentient) systems. [13.02.04]

I am back! Yep, no more living abroad for now. Until May 1'st it is all about finishing the dissertation, getting some more ECTS to meet Ph.D. formalia and be as much part of DELCA as time allow. [02.02.04]

As I'm preparing to go back to Denmark I have also initiated planning for the my post Ph.D. life. Specifically I will try to get funding to pursue my work with biomimetic IT design as a Post doc either in Denmark or abroad. [21.01.04]

Long time no read: I've been very busy. I have a couple of papers under review, a couple of papers under preparation and a couple of presentations to prepare, so I've been to busy to seem busy at my webpage. [19.01.04]

My paper for the First International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced IT Design will be online Monday 01.12.03. Monday will also be the day of the first official meeting in the DELCA group. Prospects for the project are very good at the moment and everyone is exited. I will keep you posted on the future developments. [28.11.03]

Now it's official: KLI will have to bare over with me until february [04.11.03]

My application for a prolonged stay at KLI was granted unofficially yesterday, so I decided to represent the institution more appropriately. Hence I changed the picture again. [29.10.03]

Yesterday I submitted my first draft on an invited paper on patterns and semantics for the journal of Kesera. Likewise I have been asked to submit an extended version of my IAT paper and a paper on robots and agency for Cognitive Semiotics. The papers will be online when accepted in their final form. [22.10.03]

The new DELCA website is alive (or dead!) thanks to Troels our new wizard. [15.10.03]

The DELCA Ghosts project (see below) is slowly forming. Another young bright talent Troels Folmann has joined the project to work on identification sounds, ambient presence, speech synthesis and other sonic matters relating to the ghosts. Marius Hartmann has started experimenting with simple dynamic and scalable visual manifestations of the ghosts. [06.10.03]

I submitted only two long papers to the First International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced IT Design They will be online at this homepage later. [19.09.03]

I am working on three different papers for the First International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced IT Design but since it is only a two-day workshop I probably better constrain myself and submit some of the stuff elsewhere. [09.09.03]

Finally I arrived in Vienna after some seriously busy weeks organizing ISI'03 in Copenhagen and going to a conference in Florida. I (Louise will arrive later) live in a very nice flat in central Vienna and KLI seems very interesting so far. [07.08.03]

Except from being unauthorized in occupying the Botanical Auditorium in Copenhagen and breaking all the inventory at the same place the ISI'03 was a great success (documentation). Rumors will have it that another meeting next year in Macedonia is under way. [07.08.03]

Mikkel has left the country. Louise and I left New York July 15'th. Ahead waits the ISI'03 conference in Copenhagen (22'th to 26'th of July), The CCCT Conference in Orlando, Florida (July 31'st to August 2'rd) before I start at KLI (August 5'th). [15.07.03]

I am now employed at a real university - The IT University of Copenhagen changes its official status and name in Danish. [01.07.03]

Some colleagues and I have initiated a project on Disembodied Location-specific Conversational Agents (DELCA) called 'ghosts' which is to inhabit a virtual narrative universe in the new ITU building in Ørestaden next year. The ghosts will provide both assistance and interactive entertainment and compete to get popular among their users by performing well. The project is still in its infancy but more will follow. [05.05.03]

After a lot of pressure from various powerful and influential people around the globe I have been forced into changing the picture at the homepage. I hope this is a better or at least a more adequate picture. [10.04.03]

I have received a Junior Fellowship at Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Vienna for August and September. I will probably get permission to hang around until January and I expect to get a really stimulating stay in Vienna. [02.02.03]