Hi, in the actual issue vol 24, no.2 (april 2001) of "informatik spektrum" - the german journal for professional informatics (springer verlag) you'll find an article entitled: "Quo vadis, informatik" written by Britta Schinzel and Karin Kleinn pp 91-97 There is a small abstract in english included, which I'll post here. The questions are available in german at the end of the article. On interst you may ask the article authors ( schinzel at modell.iig.uni-freiburg.de ) for translation of the questions into english (;- abstract ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Within a project "Professionalisation of Infor- matics" performed at the Institute for Computer Science and Social Research of the University of Freiburg we want to explore which are the actual standards of professionality in German Informatics, which ways the subject is following at the time, and what is considered as most likely future develop- ment.We want to find out which are the different streams of self definition and leading visions within Informatics, especially with respect to software de- velopment, and how these are participating in the development of Informatics as science and as a pro- fession. We want to invite all colleagues interested in the future of Informatics, in particular also the female ones, to tell us their opinions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ludger Humbert http://in.hagen.de/~humbert/