Philip K. McKinley received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Illinois from 1982-1990. Dr. McKinley has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and was co-chair of the program committee for the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. His current research interests include Distributed systems, self-adaptive software, autonomic computing, adaptive middleware, group communication services, digital evolution, artificial life, overlay networks, and service composition.
