Peter Wayner Explained

Peter Wayner is an American writer known for his books on technology and his writing in mainstream publications including The New York Times, InfoWorld,^[1] and Wired magazine. His work on mimic functions, a camouflaging technique for encoding data so it takes on the statistical characteristics of other information, is an example of steganography,^[2] and was the basis of his 2009 book, Disappearing Cryptography.^[3]

In 2018, he received attention for writing an article about the New York City transit system, advocating for replacing large subway trains with competing fleets of smaller, thinner and more nimble autonomous cars, scooters, hoverboards and pods.^{[4] [5]} The article received widespread criticism.^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

Bibliography (selected)

• Book: Wayner, Peter . Disappearing Cryptography -- A book on steganography, information hiding, watermarking and other techniques for disguising information . 2008 . Morgan Kaufmann . 978-0-12-374479-1 . 2009-12-12.
• Book: Wayner, Peter . Policing Online Games -- How mathematics can make online games more honest and fair . 2003 . Flyzone Press . 978-0-9675844-2-3 . 2009-12-12.
• Book: Wayner, Peter . Translucent Databases -- How to create databases that answer questions without holding any information inside them. Most of the techniques involve applying a one-way function to personal data . 2002 . Flyzone Sr Llc . 978-0-9675844-1-6 . 2009-12-12.
• Book: Wayner, Peter . Free for All: How LINUX and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans . 2000 . HarperCollins . 0-06-662050-3 . 2015-08-18 . registration .
• Book: Wayner, Peter . Compression Algorithms for Real Programmers (The For Real Programmers Series) . 1999 . Morgan Kaufmann . 978-0-12-788774-6.
• Book: Wayner, Peter . Agents Unleashed: A Public Domain Look at Agent Technology . 1995 . Morgan Kaufmann . 978-0-12-738765-9 .
• Book: Wayner, Peter . Future Ride: 80 Ways the Self-Driving, Autonomous Car Will Change Everything from Buying Groceries to Teen Romance to Surviving a Hurricane to Turning Ten to Having a Heart Attack to Building a Dream Home to Simple Getting from Here to There. 2013. 978-1484123331.

Notes and References

1. http://www.infoworld.com/author-bios/peter-wayner Author Bio
2. http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=4131 Signals in the Noise
3. Book: Disappearing cryptography : information hiding : steganography & watermarking. Wayner, Peter. 2009. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. 9780080922706. 3rd. Amsterdam. 413010270.
4. News: The New York City Subway Is Beyond Repair. Wayner. Peter. 2018-06-09. The Atlantic. 2018-06-11. en-US.
5. humantransit . 1005851123742224384 . 10 June 2018 . Tfw a publication you trust on topics you don't know well publishes a deeply ignorant piece about a topic you know well. It devastates my ability to trust. (If it's satire, it needed clearer markers) @JeffreyGoldberg @JamesFallows @dccdudley (1/) https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/the-new-york-city-subway-is-beyond-repair/562472/.
6. News: Replacing the NYC Subway System With Autonomous Cars Is a Terrible Idea. 2018-06-15. Motherboard. 2018-09-20. en-us.
7. News: When 'Fixing' Public Transit Just Means Making It More Exclusive. CityLab. 2018-09-20. en-US.
8. News: This Essay Proposing to "Fix" the NYC Subway with Autonomous Cars Demonstrates the Insanity of Neoliberalism. pastemagazine.com. 2018-09-20. en.
9. News: Letters: The NYC Subway Is Not 'Beyond Repair'. 2018-06-13. The Atlantic. 2018-09-20. en-US.