Interview with Naoki Kobayashi, CONCUR 2026 ToT Award recipient

As mentioned in a previous post , Naoki Kobayashi will receive one of the two CONCUR 2026 Test-of-Time Awards at CONCUR 2026 . Naoki has kindly agreed to answer some questions of mine on his award-winning paper via email. I am delighted to post his answers below and hope you'll enjoy reading them as much as I did. Thanks, Naoki! Luca: You receive the CONCUR ToT Award 2026 for your paper A New Type…