Web Services Interface Definition for Intrusion Defense

About the technology author(s):
Phil Janson earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brussels, as well as M.S., E.E., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from M.I.T. From 1976 to 1996, he held a tenured lecturer position in Operating Systems at the University of Brussels. In 1977, he joined the IBM Zurich Research Lab, where he worked initially on high-speed packet switches and the IBM Token Ring. In 1986, Dr. Janson worked on OS/2 LAN gateways at the IBM Development Lab in Austin. Back in Zurich in 1987, he managed several projects on heterogeneous networking and security. In 1995 he became head of a new Computer Science Department at the IBM Zurich Lab, which he built up until 1999, with a focus on IT security technologies, smart cards, pervasive computing, and e-business.

In 1995 Dr. Janson was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology, of which he was Vice President in 2000 and 2001, serving at the same time as Program Manager for University Relations at the Zurich Lab. In 2001 he also became a member of the Advisory Board of the Communication Systems Dept. of the EPFLausanne and was elected to the Research Council of the Swiss National Foundation. From 2002 to 2004, he returned to an active research career as Senior Technical Staff Member, working on Web services security. He is presently Program Manager for Services Research Assets.

Dr. Janson holds several patents and wrote over 50 papers in the areas of IT security and distributed systems as well as a book on Operating Systems. He received a Harkness Fellowship from the Commonwealth Fund of New York in 1972 and a number of IBM Invention and Outstanding Technical Contribution Awards since then. He is a member of the ACM and of the IEEE Computer Society.