Robert X. Cringely

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Robert X. Cringely
Stephens (as Cringely) delivers the keynote speech at the 2006 CODI Conference in Salt Lake City.
Born
Mark Stephens

(1953-01-28) January 28, 1953 (age 71)
Apple Creek, Ohio, U.S.
EducationBA, College of Wooster, 1975
MA, Stanford University
Occupation(s)Journalist, Technology writer
Known forInfoWorld column
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition and Still Can't Get a Date
SpouseMary Alyce
Websitewww.cringely.com

Robert X. Cringely is the pen name of both technology journalist Mark Stephens and a string of writers for a column in InfoWorld, the one-time weekly computer trade newspaper published by IDG.

InfoWorld

Mark Stephens contributed to

ISBN 0-88730-855-4).[citation needed
]

After a financial disagreement in 1995, Stephens was dismissed from InfoWorld and was promptly sued by IDG to prevent him from continuing to use the Cringely trademark. A settlement was reached out of court that allowed him to use the name, so long as he did not contribute to competing technology magazines.[citation needed]

Mark Stephens

Biography

Stephens was born in 1953, in

Apple, Inc.,[5] though Daniel Kottke also claims this number.[6]

Stephens' writing as Robert X. Cringely regularly appeared in publications such as

PBS
called Plane Crazy, in which he attempted to build an aircraft in 30 days and fly it when completed. The project quickly fell behind schedule and he became angry with the film crew. Eventually, he admitted defeat and the aircraft was cut up by Cringely. In the final episode, he builds an existing kit designed and assisted by Fisher Aero.

As Cringely, Stephens produced and hosted an

Internet television show called NerdTV (2005–06) for PBS and, until late 2008, wrote an online column for the PBS website called I, Cringely: The Pulpit. On November 14, 2008, Stephens announced that he would stop contributing columns to PBS as of that December 15. He indicated that the move was his own decision "and not that of PBS, which has been nothing but good to me these many years".[7] He also blogged for the Technology Evangelist site during 2007.[8]

Today, his writings can be found at his own I, Cringely site.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Liesl Schillinger (December 1998). "The Double Life of Robert X. Cringely". WIRED. Vol. 6, no. 12.
  2. IMDb
  3. ^ President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island (1979-10-30). Report of The President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island (Report). p. 166. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  4. ^ "Three Mile Island Lessons for COVID-19: FEMA and Me". I, Cringely. Cringely.com. April 15, 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  5. ^ "Triumph of the Nerds: Q & A with Bob Cringely". PBS.
  6. ^ "Interview: Apple Employee No. 12 Dan Kottke on Company's Earliest Days and the College Steve Jobs". 25 November 2011.
  7. ^ "Now For Something Completely Different". PBS. 2008-11-14. Archived from the original on 2008-12-05.
  8. ^ "Cringely blogged for this site during 2007". Technology Evangelist. 2007. Archived from the original on 2013-02-04.
  9. ^ "Cringely's official website". I, Cringely.

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