From Piecemeal Engineering to Twitter Technology: Toward Computational Societies

2 1541-1672/12/$31.00 © 2012 IEEE IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Published by the IEEE Computer Society Letters to the Editor: Send letters, including a reference to the article in question, to [email protected]. Letters will be edited for clarity and length. Articles: If you’re interested in submitting an article for publication, see our author guidelines at www.computer.org/ intelligent/author.htm. We’d Like to Hear from You Editor: Fei-Yue Wang, State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, [email protected] Coincidentally, 23 June 2012 marked anniversaries of two significant lives: it was the centennial of Alan Mathison Turing’s birth; and it was also the