Christopher Mims Explained

Christopher Mims
Alma Mater:	Emory University
Birth Place:	United States
Occupation:	Technology journalist
Employer:	The Wall Street Journal

Christopher Mims is an American technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal,^[1] which he joined in 2014.

Early life

Mims received a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University in 2001.^[2]

Career

Mims taught English in Japan for six months and worked in a neuroscience lab.^{[3] [4]} He was a science and technology correspondent and editor for Quartz,^[5] and also worked as an editor at Scientific American,^[6] Technology Review, Smithsonian and Grist. Mims was also a producer at Small Mammal,^[7] where he helped director John Pavlus produce science videos for Slate, Popular Science, and Nature.

Mims covered the converging crises of the 21st century for Grist.^[8]

Mims was a contributing editor at MIT Technology Review between 2011 and 2012.^[9]

On 14 July 2014, Mims, writing in The Wall Street Journal, said the password "is finally dying" and predicted their replacement by device-based authentication; however, purposefully revealing his Twitter password resulted in being forced to change his cellphone number.^[10]

Personal life

In January 2015, Taylor Lorenz announced her engagement to Mims.^[11]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Obama Voices Strong Support for Net Neutrality . Boston.com . November 13, 2014.
2. Web site: Christopher Mims. Wall Street Journal. 15 February 2018.
3. Web site: Researchers develop MRI technique to study brain anatomy in invertebrates . . 2 July 2022 . en . December 15, 2004 . Herberholz and his colleagues, including Georgia State professor Donald Edwards, Georgia State lab technician Christopher Mims, and Emory University's Xiaodong Zhang and Xiaoping Hu, developed manganese-enhanced MRI to study the crayfish brain..
4. Web site: Christopher Mims Q&A . WSJ+ . 2 July 2022 . en.
5. Web site: Christopher Mims — Technology Columnist . . 2 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190206213315/https://www.wsj.com/news/author/christopher-mims . 6 February 2019 . en.
6. News: Mims . Christopher . Strange but True: Testosterone Alone Does Not Cause Violence . 2 July 2022 . . en.
7. Web site: The Science of YouTube: Cuuute! . Popular Science . 2 July 2022 . 13 February 2009.
8. Web site: Christopher Mims . Grist . 2 July 2022 . en-us.
9. Web site: Christopher Mims Contributor . Technology Review . November 13, 2014.
10. • News: The Password is Finally Dying. Here's Mine . Wall Street Journal . 14 July 2014 . 2015-03-14 . Christopher . Mims . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150109000225/http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-password-is-finally-dying-heres-mine-1405298376 . 2015-01-09.
    • Web site: Mims . Christopher . Commentary: What I Learned, and What You Should Know, After I Published My Twitter Password . Wall Street Journal . 2 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140716151110/http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/15/commentary-what-i-learned-and-what-you-should-know-after-i-published-my-twitter-password/ . 16 July 2014 . 15 July 2014.
11. Web site: 2020-02-17 . We're engaged! — Taylor Lorenz . 2022-03-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200217170219/http://www.taylorlorenz.com:80/blog/2016/8/29/were-engaged . 17 February 2020 . dead.