Rem Koolhaas… deconstructed

Remmert Koolhaas was born in 1944 in Rotterdam, where bombing in World War II had erased, as in Berlin, the image of the historical city. With his family he moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1952 and staying until 1956, and then to Brazil, where he admired the works of Oscar Niemeyer. Back in Holland he [...]


New trends in information systems

In the recent years peer-to-peer architectures have emerged as a novel architectural paradigm for managing distributed information at a large scale. In peer-to-peer architectures central points of coordination are avoided and replaced by self-organization principles, thus making the systems robust and scalable. This approach has been adopted by a number of highly successful applications on [...]