Last year, the CONCUR conference series inaugurated its Test-of-Time Award,
the purpose of which is to recognise important achievements in Concurrency
Theory that were published at the conference and have stood the test of time.
This year, Decoding Choice Encodings by Uwe Nestmann and Benjamin C.
Pierce was one of four papers chosen to receive the CONCUR Test-of-Time
Award for the periods 1994–1997 and 1996–1999 by a jury consisting of Rob
van Glabbeek (chair), Luca de Alfaro, Nathalie Bertrand, Catuscia Palamidessi,
and Nobuko Yoshida. This article is devoted to the engaging and interesting
interview conducted with Uwe Nestmann and Benjamin C. Pierce via video
conference.