[the often-obligatory self-inflating puffery]
Task Force on Electronic Access to Public Records, Calif. State Senate
"Futures" columnist & Contributing Editor, Micro Times
Public-access columnist, Government Technology
Electronic Filings Advisory Panel, California Secretary of State (1995)
Hugh M. Hefner First-Amendment Award (1994)
James Madison FOI Award, Soc. of Professional Journalists - Nor. Calif. (1994)
Pioneer Award, Electronic Frontier Foundation (1992, its first year)
Founder, Conferences on Computers, Freedom & Privacy (1991)
Founding host, PBS television's Computer Chronicles series
Founder Publisher, Info World; Founding Editor, Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computing
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Graduate degrees: Computer Engineering, Stanford University
Medical Information Science, Univ. of California Medical Center - San Francisco
Mathematics & Statistics, University of Texas - Austin