FORA.tv Speaker - Daniel H. Wilson

Daniel H. Wilson is an author and contributing editor to Popular Mechanics magazine. He earned a Ph.D. in Robotics from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in 2005, where he also received Master's degrees in Robotics and Machine Learning. He is the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion (winner of the WIRED magazine RAVE Award for best book of 2006), as well as Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived. Wilson's work has appeared in Popular Mechanics, Wired magazine, and Discover magazine and he has been featured in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and LA Times, as well as on national radio and television programs such as Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn.