Ozalp Babaoglu is Professor of Computer Science and Head of Department at the University of Bologna, Italy. He received a Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley where he was a principal architect of BSD Unix. He is the recipient of 1982 Sakrison Memorial Award, 1989 UNIX International Recognition Award and 1993 USENIX Association Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the UNIX system community and to Open Industry Standards. Before moving to Bologna in 1988, Babaoglu was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He has been active in several European research projects in distributed computing and complex adaptive systems. Babaoglu is an ACM Fellow, a resident fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna and serves on the editorial boards for ACM Transactions on Computer Systems and ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.