Daniel MangeDaniel Mange received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. Since 1969, he has been a Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He held a position as Visiting Professor at the Center for Reliable Computing, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1987. Dr. Mange is director of the Logic Systems Laboratory and his chief interests include firmware theory (equivalence and transformation between hardwired systems and programs), cellular automata, artificial life, and embryonics (embryonic electronics). He has authored and co-authored several scientific papers in these areas, as well as the books "Microprogrammed Systems: An Introduction to Firmware Theory" (London: Chapman & Hall, 1992) and "Bio-Inspired Computing Machines" (Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 1998). Dr. Mange was Program Co-Chairman of the First International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES96), held in Tsukuba, Japan, General Chairman of the Second International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES98), held in Lausanne in September 1998, General Chairman of the 5th International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT 2003), held in Lausanne in September 2003, and general Co-Chairman of the 1st International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Theory (Bio-ADIT 2004), held in Lausanne in January 2004.
Alain WegmannAlain Wegmann joined EPFL in 1996. His interests are in techniques to better align business and IT. He developed, with his group and partners, the SEAM methods: SEAM for business (strategic thinking), SEAM for enterprise architecture (business/IT alignment) and SEAM for software (IT). The originality of SEAM is in the integration of generic systems thinking principles into discipline-specific methods. This integration has three benefits: (1) the possibility to relate the different disciplines (by having common systemic principles); (2) the capability to leverage on discipline-specific knowledge (by using the vocabulary and the heuristics of each discipline) and (3) to be more efficient in solving problems (by benefiting from the problem solving techniques developed in systems thinking). SEAM is currently applied in master courses and consulting. Consulting is done for start-ups developing their business and technology strategies and for large companies having service-oriented architecture projects.
Prior to joining EPFL, Alain Wegmann worked for 14 years with Logitech in software development/engineering management (Switzerland, Taiwan, US), manufacturing (Taiwan) and marketing (US). When he left Logitech, Alain Wegmann was engineering vice-president and marketing director for large accounts.
