Yehuda Kalay is professor of Architecture and former Director of the Center for New Media at UC Berkeley. He holds B.Arch (professional) and MSc (research) degrees in Architecture from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and PhD in Architetcure from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA). Prior to his tenure at Berkeley, Professor Kalay taught in the departments of architecture and computer science at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he also served as co-director of the Department or Architecture. He is a founding member and past president of ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture), and former Editor-in-Chief of Automation in Construction, an international refereed journal (Elsevier, UK). Kalay’s research focuses on digital and collaborative design. It has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Italian National Council for Research (CNR), the Universities of California and New York, and corporation such as Boeing, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Microsoft, CARTESIANA (Italy), and Intelligence Artificielle (Switzerland). Professor Kalay work has published over 100 scholarly papers and seven books, the most recent of which are New Heritage: Cultural Heritage and New Media (Routledge, 2008), and Architecture’s New Media (MIT, 2004).