""'Ambient Machines " "'was Marc Lafia s next online work in Java and Flash that was first exhibited at Open Source Lounge, Medi @ terra Festival Athens, Greece in 2000 . " Ambient Machines " was a further development of Lafia s ideas about shared authorship, the locus of editorial control in film, and generativity of complex cinematic behavior from simple rules.
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One commentator wrote, " In more than 25 years working as a scientific editor . . . I have not been aware of any valid argument for more than three authors per paper, although I recognize that this may not be true for every field . " The rise of shared authorship has been attributed to Big Science scientific experiments that require collaboration and specialization of many individuals.