Panelist Panel-3: Masao Ito (NIL Software, Japan) Masao Ito, a Japanese software developer and a researcher, and recently established a new company, Nil Software Corp. to develop a Integrated Process Support Environment (IPSE) tools, which also support a software designer's thinking processes. This is challenging because the designer's thinking process takes place internally, and is not visible to a computer system. He is interested in finding an innovative solution for software design process and user interface design to deal with the issue using the Zen-Buddhism approach. Masao Ito nil@nil.co.jp