| David Pogue, Yale '85, is the
weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times
and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News.
With three million books in print, he is one of the world's
bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books
in the Dummies series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and
Classical Music); in 1999, he launched the Missing Manual
series, which now includes 30 titles (on topics like
Dreamweaver, iMovie, iPhoto, Microsoft Office, and Windows
XP). He has also written three computer humor books. After
studying music, English, and computer science at Yale and
graduating summa cum laude in music, he worked on several
Broadway shows. Soon his computer-teaching skills
turned out to be in more demand than his musical skills.
In the interests of hedging his bets, he also taught courses
for magicians.
He began writing for Macworld Magazine in 1988 and wrote
the triple-award-winning Desktop Critic column until 2000,
when he became the personal-technology columnist for the New
York Times. His column, "State of the Art," appears every
Thursday on the front page of the Circuits section. |
 David Pogue
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| David appears
frequently on "CBS News Sunday Morning" and other TV and
radio shows. In 2004, his segments on Google and the
spam problem won a 2004 Business Emmy.
He and his wife Jennifer Pogue, MD, live in Connecticut
with their three young children.
KEYNOTE
Dave’s Mobile Show-and-Tell
David Pogue reviews over 200 products a year for the New
York Times. If anyone can identify the breakthroughs,
he can. In this lively presentation, David will present and
actually demonstrate the latest and most amazing mobile
gadgets, and then offer his mini-critique of each device.
The assortment changes monthly, of course, but past
presentations have included the cellphone that offers
unlimited free calls via Wi-Fi; the pocket camera that beams
photos instantly onto Flickr (the photo-sharing website);
the music player that downloads wirelessly from a catalog of
two million songs; a folding memory card for cameras that
eliminates the need for wires or card readers; the secret of
getting Directory Assistance for free on your cellphone
(rather than $2 per call from your carrier); the latest
breakthroughs in speech recognition; and, of course, the
iPhone.
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