Morton Swimmer Morton Swimmer was born in New York City, raised there and in Hamburg, Germany, then studied in England and Hamburg. It was at the University of Hamburg where he came to study computer security under Prof. Dr. Brunnstein and in 1988 he co-founded the Virus Test Center. He started his first anti-virus business in 1991, which was bought by S&S International UK. Then in 1996, Morton joined IBM Research in New York to work on IBM Antivirus and create the Digital Immune System, which was bought a few years later by Symantec. The next switch was to IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland to research the applicability of intrusion detection techniques to the anti-virus field with one of the world's leading research groups in intrusion detection. From this research, the DIMVA Conference was formed. Somewhere along the way he got his Ph.D. with a thesis on malware intrusion detection. In 2007, he became a associate professor at CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice and in 2008 he joined Trend Micro, where he still works, with only a brief stint in between at Intel Security. He is now based in Germany.