It is important that John Woodbridge introduced the community to the powerful mathematics of Michael Leyton's book "A Generative Theory of Shape" in Springer-Verlag. A crucial aspect of this mathematics is that Leyton has invented a truly remarkable discipline called Interoperability Science - which is a systematic law-driven mathematical analysis of how to achieve interoperability. A great interest has been shown in Leyton's approach by several of the world's top engineering organizations. Also, the institute that Leyton has created, the International Institute of Interoperability Science, has a powerful goal and program that has also received great interest from these organizations.