Michael B. Jones
is Director of Identity Partnerships at Microsoft. He is working with a broad
coalition of people across multiple industries to build the Internet’s missing
Identity layer. He represents Microsoft on the
Information Card Foundation and
OpenID
Foundation boards of directors. He just completed terms as president of the
USENIX Association board of directors and board member of the
Computing Research Association (CRA). He was a member of the
Systems and Networking Research Group at
Microsoft Research from 1992 to 2005. His research covered diverse
topics in operating systems and distributed systems, including scalable
peer-to-peer based event notification, real-time scheduling for open systems,
and designing an early distributed fault-tolerant video server. He has
organized and chaired numerous computer science research conferences, has a
large set of publications, and has authored patents covering a diverse set of
inventions. He is an active
director of Asia
Images, a specialty stock photography company.
Michael earned his
Ph.D. in Computer Science from
Carnegie Mellon University in 1992, where he was a member of
the
Mach project.
He was a technical reviewer for the
POSIX threads standards.
His interests include digital identity, privacy-protecting systems, distributed
systems, networking, operating systems, adaptive real-time systems, musical
performance, outdoor activities, and his fellow human beings. His web address
is
http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/ and he blogs at
http://self-issued.info/.
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