I live in Boston with my wife, journalist and user interface/usability expert Kim Patch. We're founding members of our neighborhood green group, GreeningRozzie, and play in Creek River String Band. In addition to music, I'm into reading, writing, cooking, traveling, birdwatching, the great outdoors, movies, science, history, art, technology, fresh ale and good conversation. About Eric Smalley (617) 325-4940 eric@scriven.com +ericsmalley @ericsmalley Brief bio I'm a freelance writer and editor, and a regular contributor to Wired.com. I've written about science and technology since 1987. I've covered nanotechnology, quantum computing, robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, supercomputers, Big Data, the Internet, renewable energy and climate science, among other topics. I've freelanced for Discover, Scientific American, Wired.com, CNet, Data Informed, Nature Reports: Climate Change, Nature Network Boston, The Boston Globe, Computerworld, CIO, Datamation, and InfoWorld, among other publications. I've been a regular contributor to CNet's Crave. I also write for Columbia University's Case Consortium @ Columbia. I founded Energy Research News and cofounded Technology Research News. I was Deputy News Editor at Digital Review, a Senior Editor at Network World, and a Senior Editor at PC Week. Resume (PDF) Writing Wired: Wired Enterprise stories Wired Business stories Wired Design stories October 26, 2011 to present Selected Wired.com stories: These May Be The Droids Farmers Are Looking For Are We Immune To Viral Marketing? Pedaling Produce: Boston Gets a Bike-Powered Farm Cart D-Wave Defies World of Critics With ‘First Quantum Cloud’ ‘Twine’ Seeks To Tie Up The Smart Environment Apple Pumps Sunlight Into iCloud Data Center Chinese Crunch Human Genome With Videogame Chips MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip IBM Sends Watson Supercomputer to Business School Freelance: Siri Points the Way to Analytics-Driven Enterprise Assistants Data Informed, May 1, 2013 Higher Truth or Just the Facts? Hell and Back Again Case Consortium @ Columbia, February 2013 Analytics Lessons from Spy Work: Machine Learning Applied to Unstructured Data Data Informed, December 4, 2012 Big Pharma Tracks Competition with Semantic Web Tools Data Informed, August 3, 2012 NASA Applies Text Analytics to Airline Safety Data Informed, July 30, 2012 Foursquare, Vinspin Unleash Hadoop-based Recommendation Engines Data Informed, July 13, 2012 Crave posts CNet, June 15 to October 26, 2011 Cornell software fingers fake online reviews CNet, July 26, 2011 Jell-O-Like Material Promises Soft Data Storage TPM Idea Lab, July 25, 2011 Korean Researchers’ Prototype Brings ‘Instant On’ Computers Nearer TPM Idea Lab, July 21, 2011 Google Badges: What have you been reading? CNet, July 15, 2011 Facebook, Twitter Extensions For Google+ Pose Security Risk TPM Idea Lab, July 14, 2011 'Cosmic Panda' puts a shine on YouTube CNet, July 7, 2011 Darpa Challenge Inspires 4 Plans to Make Computers 40x More Efficient Discover, July/August, 2011 Google+ invaded by multiple Mark Zuckerbergs CNet, June 30, 2011 Obama Spurs Us On In Clean Energy Race Wired News, October 23, 2009 Ice-cold hotspots Nature Reports Climate Change, August 2007 Carbon export overestimated Nature Reports Climate Change, August 2007 Climate Engineering Is Doable, as Long as We Never Stop Wired News, July 25, 2007 Sheet stability Nature Reports Climate Change, July 2007 Amazonian methane bursts Nature Reports Climate Change, July 2007 Fruiting fungi Nature Reports Climate Change, June 2007 Twilight zone transport Nature Reports Climate Change, June 2007 A mechanical view of biology gains ground Boston researchers are delving into the physical forces at work in the cell and building a new field along the way. Nature Network Boston, May 10, 2007 Synthetic biology gets down to business Engineered cells and organisms could soon become the tools of the pharmaceutical and energy industries. Nature Network Boston, March 7, 2007 Capacitors Could Replace Batteries Discover, January 2007 Quantum engineer Seth Lloyd of MIT turns atoms into computers and thinks about how to program the universe. Nature Network Boston, December 11, 2006 Physicist turned technologist After leaving a promising career in particle physics, Joe Paradiso of MIT’s Media Lab is helping to usher in a new era of computing. Nature Network Boston, November 6, 2006 A field of its own MIT’s Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, talks about why we need a new discipline to study it. Nature Network Boston, November 3, 2006 Doctor as nano engineer MIT’s Sangeeta Bhatia draws on her engineering and medical training to develop high-tech tools for tackling cancer. Nature Network Boston, September 6, 2006 Warm Watts for Wireless Wired News, May 15, 2006 Light Work Better solar nanotubes to split water for hydrogen Scientific American, May 2006 Face Reader Bridges Autism Gap Wired News, April 14, 2006 Future Tech: Faking Intelligence Discover, August 2002 Future Tech: Hack-Proof Chatting Discover, May 2002 The walls have eyes -- and ears and... The Boston Globe, July 20, 1998 Energy Research News: www.ernmag.com   Selected ERN news briefs:   "Schooled" wind turbines perform better   Wave turbine takes wing   Nanoparticles promise superfast batteries   Selected ERN blog posts:   A call for scientists to call on citizens   Geoengineering research: curb your enthusiasm   Personalized energy   Selected ERN interviews:   Energy in transition: researchers talk about Obama and our future   Penn State's Craig Grimes   UNSW's Martin Green     Technology Research News: www.trnmag.com   Selected TRN news stories:   Cell combo yields blood vessels   Machine reproduces itself   Integrated biochips debut   Selected TRN features:   Can nanotech beat cancer?   Nano cancer drugs move to the next level: humans   Selected TRN interviews:   Cornell's Jon Kleinberg   NYU's Nadrian Seeman   ICL's John Pendry