Amsterdam, 27 April 2009: At the Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems group at the Free University of Amsterdam, Martijn is one of the spiders in the web. When I entered the group as visiting
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Dr. Martijn Warnier graduated with a Masters of Science in Cognitive Artificial Intelligence from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in the beginning of 2002. He did his PhD in the Security of
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Computer words are very different from the words human beings use, because computer words have very clear, specified semantics. There is no ambiguity according to Warnier.
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Because of the current business models in software, we end up with very crappy software that we don’t really understand how it works, argues Warnier.
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One of the reasons for the muddy software world we live in is, according to Warnier, that we don’t even know what the real specifications are.
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For Warnier systems are tools in the first place. He would not ever call them participants. Maybe abstractions, but systems themselves don’t have any power.
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Nevejan replies that we need to better understand systems because we live in a world where they have become very important; they interfere in more personal spheres than any tool ever before, even in
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Computer infrastructure is not much more then a couple of bites in one way or another. So there’s nothing there that lives. Time, rhythm, place and culture are all human concepts that people can
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Warniers work is basically thinking and publishing these thoughts, which is why he only needs pen and paper to do his work. Technology does not affect his way of thinking because he usually thinks in
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Even though it is not his ambition, Warnier agrees if you want to design a good system that people are going to use, you really have to think about how people want to use their systems.
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Full transcript including film fragments you find at: http://www.systemsdesign.tbm.tudelft.nl/witness
Hereunder the transcript in text.
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