FORA.tv Speaker - John Markoff

John Markoff began writing about technology in 1976 freelancing for a number of publications including the Nation, Mother Jones and Saturday Review. In 1988, he moved to New York to join The New York Times as a reporter for the paper's business section and now writes for the Times from San Francisco where he covers Silicon Valley.

At the Times he broke the story identifying Robert Tappan Morris, son of National Security Agency cryptographer Robert Morris, as the author of what would become known as the Internet worm. Markoff holds degrees from Whitman College in Washington and University of Oregon.