Background
John Markoff was born on October 24, 1949, in Oakland, California.
2013
135 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States
(From left to right) David Streitfeld, Claire Cain Miller, Nick Bilton, John Markoff, Nicole Perlroth, and Quentin Hardy at The New York Times Global Forum with Thomas L. Friedman at the Metreon on June 20, 2013, in San Francisco, California. Photo by Neilson Barnard.
2013
135 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States
John Markoff speaks with reporters from the New York Times Bits Blog during the What We Don't know is Coming discussion at The New York Times Global Forum with Thomas L. Friedman at the Metreon on June 20, 2013, in San Francisco, California. Photo by Neilson Barnard.
2013
135 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States
John Markoff and Quentin Hardy with California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom at The New York Times Global Forum with Thomas L. Friedman at the Metreon on June 20, 2013, in San Francisco, California. Photo by Neilson Barnard.
2014
San Francisco, California, United States
(From left to right, The New York Times staff) Technology Reporter Vindu Goel, Deputy Technology Editor Molly Wood, Deputy Technology Editor Quentin Hardy, the Upshot Writer Claire Cain Miller, Business Day State of the Art Columnist Farhad Manjoo, John Markoff and Technology Reporter David Streifeld at the The New York Times Next New World Conference on June 12, 2014 in San Francisco, California. Photo by Neilson Barnard.
2013
135 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States
(From left to right) David Streitfeld, Claire Cain Miller, Nick Bilton, John Markoff, Nicole Perlroth, and Quentin Hardy at The New York Times Global Forum with Thomas L. Friedman at the Metreon on June 20, 2013, in San Francisco, California. Photo by Neilson Barnard.
2013
135 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States
John Markoff speaks with reporters from the New York Times Bits Blog during the What We Don't know is Coming discussion at The New York Times Global Forum with Thomas L. Friedman at the Metreon on June 20, 2013, in San Francisco, California. Photo by Neilson Barnard.
2013
135 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States
John Markoff and Quentin Hardy with California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom at The New York Times Global Forum with Thomas L. Friedman at the Metreon on June 20, 2013, in San Francisco, California. Photo by Neilson Barnard.
2014
San Francisco, California, United States
(From left to right, The New York Times staff) Technology Reporter Vindu Goel, Deputy Technology Editor Molly Wood, Deputy Technology Editor Quentin Hardy, the Upshot Writer Claire Cain Miller, Business Day State of the Art Columnist Farhad Manjoo, John Markoff and Technology Reporter David Streifeld at the The New York Times Next New World Conference on June 12, 2014 in San Francisco, California. Photo by Neilson Barnard.
2017
476 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018, United States
(From left to right) John Markoff, Vania Sciolini, and Nils Gilman at the Berggruen Prize Gala at the New York Public Library on December 14, 2017, in New York City. Photo by Bryan Bedder.
John Markoff
345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA 99362, United States
The Memorial building of Whitman College where John Markoff received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 1971.
1585 E 13th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403, United States
The University of Oregon where John Markoff obtained a Master of Arts degree in 1976.
(Considered a timeless classic, the book written in collab...)
Considered a timeless classic, the book written in collaboration with With Katie Hafner explores the exploits of three international computer hackers, Kevin Mitnick, Robert Tappan Morris, and Pengo (Hans Heinrich Hübner)
https://www.amazon.com/Cyberpunk-Outlaws-Hackers-Computer-Frontier-ebook/dp/B01EZJBIMA/?tag=2022091-20
1991
(The dramatic true story of the capture of the world's mos...)
The dramatic true story of the capture of the world's most wanted cyberthief by brilliant computer expert Tsutomu Shimomura and a jouranalist John Markoff describes Kevin Mitnick's long computer crime spree, which involved millions of dollars in credit card numbers and corporate trade secrets
https://www.amazon.com/Takedown-Pursuit-Capture-Americas-Computer/dp/0786889136/?tag=2022091-20
1995
(A poignant, funny, and inspiring book by John Markoff tel...)
A poignant, funny, and inspiring book by John Markoff tells about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs – the culture being counter – and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically
https://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Personal/dp/0143036769/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(The New York Times reporter John Markoff, the first repor...)
The New York Times reporter John Markoff, the first reporter to cover the World Wide Web, offers a sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and computers
https://www.amazon.com/Machines-Loving-Grace-Common-Between/dp/0062266691/?tag=2022091-20
2015
John Markoff was born on October 24, 1949, in Oakland, California.
John Markoff spent his childhood and youth in Palo Alto, California.
In 1971, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Five years later, he completed his Master of Arts degree at the University of Oregon.
John Markoff started his career in 1977 when he joined the staff of Pacific News Service based in San Francisco as a reporter. After four years of service at the news media organization, Markoff has earned his living as a freelancer for such periodicals as The Nation and Mother Jones and Saturday Review. In 1981 he became reporter and editor at the computer industry weekly InfoWorld working in that capacity till 1983. From 1984 to 1985, he edited the issues of Byte Magazine and then was accepted to the business section of the San Francisco Examiner where he penned articles on Silicon Valley.
Three years after, Markoff relocated to New York City where he received a post of a business and technology reporter in the New York Times.
While serving in the magazine, John Markoff wrote the articles on various personalities related to the sphere, including Robert Tappan Morris, and Kevin Mitnick. The debut piece on the hacker was followed by a series of other articles and a book ‘Takedown’ which examined the chase of Mitnick written in collaboration with a computer security expert Tsutomu Shimomura. It was a 1994 article and other writings on Mitnick which provided Markoff with popularity although the journalist was criticized for exaggerating the role of Mitnick's activities.
When the topic was off the table, Adams adopted such themes as technology, focusing on wireless networking. He has written articles on non-line-of-sight broadband wireless, phased-array antennas, and multiple-in, multiple-out (MIMO) antenna systems to enhance Wi-Fi, and on semiconductors and supercomputers. In 2009, the journalist shifted from the Business/Tech section to its Science division and served in the magazine for ten more years. Although he retired, Adams continues to contribute articles for the magazine as a freelance journalist as well as for other publications and organizations, such as the Computer History Museum which he joined as a staff historian in 2017.
In addition to ‘Takedown’, John Markoff has authored such books as ‘The High Cost of High Tech’, and ‘Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier’. His own publications include ‘What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry’ and ‘Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots.’
(The dramatic true story of the capture of the world's mos...)
1995(Considered a timeless classic, the book written in collab...)
1991(A poignant, funny, and inspiring book by John Markoff tel...)
2005(The New York Times reporter John Markoff, the first repor...)
2015(The book was co-written by John Markoff and Lenny Siegel)
1985
Quotations:
"When personal computing finally blossomed in Silicon Valley in the mid-seventies, it did so largely without the benefit of any of the history and the research that had gone before it."
"The separation of the fields of AI and human-computer interaction, or HCI, is partly a question of approach, but it’s also an ethical stance about designing humans either into or out of the systems we create."
"There is a fundamental distinction, however, between approaches to designing technology to benefit humans and designing technology as an end in itself. Today, that distinction is expressed in whether increasingly capable computers, software, and robots are designed to assist human users or to replace them."
"What will happen if our labor is no longer needed? If jobs for warehouse workers, garbage collectors, doctors, lawyers, and journalists are displaced by technology?"
John Markoff is married.