Cary Lu was an American writer specialising on the Apple Macintosh platform.
Background
Born in Qingdao, China, Lu arrived in the United States at the age of three, and grew up in California. Lu worked in television for several years on projects for National Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting System News, developed short films for Sesame Street and other children"s programs on the Public Broadcasting Service and was the science and technology editor for the Children"s Television Workshop.
Education
He studied physics at University of California, Berkeley, and eventually earned a Doctor of Philosophy in biology from the California Institute of Technology.
Career
He was part of the group that started Nova for Public Broadcasting Service and worked on science and technology education projects for the governments of Australia, Kenya, and Algeria. Lu was a best-selling author of Macintosh books Possibly one of his most well-known works is, the first edition of which was released almost simultaneously with the Macintosh 128K in 1984.
The second edition covered the Macintosh 512K, while the third edition covered six Macintosh models in all.
The fourth edition of the book (published in 1992) covered 21 models (including discontinued models, such as the Macintosh 128K), and even included mentions of the Macintosh Classic series, the Macintosh Quadra series, the PowerBooks, and System 7. Lu was founding managing editor of High Technology, technology editor for Incorporated. and a columnist on future technology for Incorporated.
Technology. He wrote columns and articles for Macworld magazine and other computer and technology publications.
While the first edition of Katie Hafners and Matthew Lyons famous book about the history of the Internet (Where Wizards stay up late, 1996) was solely dedicated to J. C. R. Licklider, the 2003 edition was dedicated to Cary Lu as well, who had died in 1997.