Steven Ericsson-Zenith is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering in Silicon Valley, California. A member of the Computer Architecture team at INMOS (STMicroelectronics), he worked on the Transputer microprocessor and the parallel programming language Occam. He is author of the "Occam 2 Reference Manual" and "Process Interaction Models." He conducted subsequent research on parallel computation at Yale University, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris and the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, traditionally the science department of the Sorbonne.