John Markoff
John Markoff is writer-in-residence for the Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence. He is currently researching a biography of Stewart Brand, the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog.
He was a reporter at the The New York Times, beginning in March 1988 as the paper’s national computer writer. He moved to Silicon Valley to write about technology in 1992. Prior to joining the Times, he worked for The San Francisco Examiner from 1985 to 1988. He reported for the New York Times Science Section from 2010 through 2015. He returned to the Business Section to cover Silicon Valley in 2016.
Markoff is the co-author of The High Cost of High Tech, published in 1985 by Harper & Row. He co-authored Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier which was published in 1991 by Simon & Schuster. In January of 1996 Hyperion published Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw, which he co-authored with Tsutomu Shimomura. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture shaped the Personal Computer Industry, was published in 2005 by Viking Books. Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots, was published in August of 2015 by HarperCollins Ecco.
In 2013 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting as part of a New York Times project on labor and automation.
He attended Whitman College and graduate school at the University of Oregon.