He received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University (1978, 1981), followed by M.C.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Carleton University in Computer Science (1993) and Electrical Engineering (2000) respectively. Prior to Carleton University, Tony worked with Nortel Networks on agent-based solutions to network management problems. His research interests include Software Agents, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence and Autonomic Computing. He has published in excess of 60 papers and has 7 patents granted with several others pending. He is also the Chief Technology Officer for Symbium Corporation, a leading company in Autonomic Computing. He has also served as a member of the advisory boards of two companies in the area of policy-based computing.