Senior Writer, New York Times

John Markoff joined The New York Times in March 1988. He writes about computers and technology issues and is based in San Francisco. He worked for The San Francisco Examiner from 1985 to 1988.

Markoff has written about computer technology since 1977. He was a reporter at Infoworld from 1981 to 1983; he was the West Coast editor for Byte Magazine from 1984 to 1985 and wrote a column for The San Jose Mercury from 1983 to 1985.

His most recent book is What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture shaped the Personal Computer Industry, published in 2005.