He is also an adjunct professor in the Swiss Federal Institute of TechnologyÃ‚s School of Computing Science. He is the author of Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2002) and the new book Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry (MIT Press, 2003). He received his PhD in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Contact him at Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052; cszypers@microsoft.com.