John Markoff

John Markoff is a journalist and author who covered technology and science for The New York Times for nearly 30 years until his retirement in 2016. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and a former staff historian at the Computer History Museum. He is best known for his early reporting on the World Wide Web, his coverage of hacker Kevin Mitnick, and contributing to the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. He was among the first reporters to visit Google in its garage-era startup phase in 1998.