He was a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 2000-2004. Dr. Giles received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2000 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He has published many technical articles in international conferences and journals in the area of digital communications, networking, distributed computing, and computer security. View his Web site at http://www.research.ibm.com/people/g/gilesjam. Dakshi Agrawal, James Giles, and Kang-Won Lee were core contributors to the development of the Policy Management Toolkit for the IBM Autonomic Computing Initiative, and received an IBM Research Division Award and Invention Achievement Award for this contribution.