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Jeffrey O. Kephart manages the Agents and Emergent Phenomena group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and chairs IBM's Autonomic Computing Advisory Board.
His research focuses on the application of analogies from biology and economics to massively distributed computing systems, particularly in the domains of autonomic computing, e-commerce and antivirus technology. His research efforts on the design of a digital immune system and on economic software agents have been publicized in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, Harvard Business Review, IEEE Spectrum and Scientific American.
Kephart received a B.S. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in electrical engineering with a concentration in physics.
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