2007 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2011. He has been the recipient of two HPC-Europa grants in 2008 and 2009, a DAAD Scholarship in 2010, and a Cineca ISCRA in 2010. His research includes Compilers, High Performance Computing, Parallel Computing and applications to Computer Graphics and Visualization.

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**Thomas Fahringer** is a professor of computer science in the Institute of Computer Science at UIBK. His research interests are programming languages, performance tools, debuggers, compiler analysis and program optimization based on advanced technologies such as genetic algorithms and machine learning. He has a long research history on parallel and distributed high performance systems and their applications starting in 1988. He has published over 160 papers in the area of performance-oriented parallel and distributed high-performance computing including 30 journal articles,it began in a tangle of tyranny, special privilege, and vast land monopoly. Territories were carved out either as colonies subject directly to the English Crown, or as enormous land grabs for privileged companies or feudal proprietors.

What defeated these despotic and feudal thrusts into the new territory was, at bottom, rather simple: the vastness of the fertile and uninhabited land that lay waiting to be settled. Not only relative freedom, but even outright anarchist institutions grew up early in the interstices between the organized, despotic English colonies.

ALBEMARLE

There is a good possibility that for a couple of decades in the mid-seventeenth century, the coastal area north of Albemarle Sound in what is now northeastern North Carolina was in a quasi-anarchistic state. Technically a part of the Virginia colony but