Biographical sketches of authors

David M. Chess IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: chess@us.ibm.com). Mr. Chess joined IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1981. He has worked on mainframe performance management, computer conferencing, workstation technology, computer security, and virus prevention. He was on the team that developed and supported IBM AntiVirus, and he is currently a research staff member in the Massively Distributed Systems group, working on emergent security problems and security for active content and autonomic systems, as well as the architecture of autonomic computing elements. He has an A.B. degree in philosophy from Princeton University, and an M.S. degree in computer science from Pace University.

Charles C. Palmer IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: ccpalmer@us.ibm.com). Dr. Palmer is senior manager of the Network Security and Cryptography departments at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. His teams work in the areas of cryptography research, Internet security technologies, Java security, Web services, privacy, and in the Global Security Analysis lab (where they are known as the “ethical hackers”), which he cofounded in 1995. Dr. Palmer frequently speaks on the topics of computer and network security at conferences around the world. He received a Ph.D. degree from Polytechnic University in computer science in 1994, where he was also an adjunct professor of computer science from 1993 to 1997. He holds five patents and has several publications from his work at IBM and Polytechnic.

Steve R. White IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: srwhite@us.ibm.com). Dr. White received a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in theoretical physics in 1982. He accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at IBM Research, where he later became a research staff member. He has published in the fields of condensed matter physics, optimization by simulated annealing, software protection, computer security, computer viruses, and information economies. He holds roughly a dozen patents in related fields. He was elected to the IBM Academy, which advises the company on technology policy and direction, and has received IBM's highest technical award for his work. At the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, he is currently senior manager of the Autonomic Computing group, which explores how we can build computing systems that have billions of components and are nevertheless self-managing.