Wendy M. Grossman Explained

Wendy M. Grossman
Birth Date:26 January 1954
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.
Occupation:
Genre:Technology
Notableworks:
    • She founded the magazine The Skeptic in the United Kingdom
Alma Mater:Cornell University
Awards:
  • In 2013, Grossman was the winner of the Enigma Award.

Wendy M. Grossman (born January 26, 1954) is a journalist, blogger, and folksinger. Her writing has been published in several newspapers, magazines, and specialized publications. She is the recipient of the 2013 Enigma Award for information security reporting.

Education

Grossman was born in New York City. She graduated from Cornell University in 1975.[1]

Career

Writer and editor

In 1987, she founded the magazine The Skeptic in the United Kingdom, which she edited for some time. As founder and editor, she has appeared on numerous UK TV and radio programmes. Her credits since 1990 include work for Scientific American, The Guardian, and the Daily Telegraph, as well as New Scientist, Wired and Wired News, and The Inquirer for which she wrote a regular weekly net.wars column. That column continues in NewsWireless and on her own site every Friday. She was a columnist for Internet Today from July 1996 until it closed in April 1997, and together with Dominic Young ran the Fleet Street Forum on CompuServe UK in the mid-1990s.[2]

She edited an anthology of interviews with leading computer industry figures taken from the pages of the British computer magazine Personal Computer World. Entitled Remembering the Future, it was published in January 1997 by Springer Verlag.[3] Her 1998 book net.wars was one of the first to have its full text published on the Web.[4] She was a member of an external board that advised Edinburgh University on the creation of the Intellectual Property and Law Centre.[5]

She sits on the executive committee of the Association of British Science Writers and the Advisory Councils of the Open Rights Group and Privacy International.[6] [7]

In February 2011 Grossman was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.[8]

Folk singer

Grossman was a full-time folk singer from 1975 to 1983 and her folk album Roseville Fair was released in 1980. She also played on Archie Fisher's 1976 LP The Man With a Rhyme.[9]

She was president of the Cornell Folk Song Club, the oldest university-affiliated, student-run folk song club in the US, from 1973 to 1975.[10]

TV appearances

In 2005, Grossman featured on an episode of the BBC Three comedy spoof series High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman.[11] [12]

Awards

In 2013, Grossman was the winner of the Enigma Award, part of the BT Information Security Journalism Awards, "for her dedication and outstanding contribution to information security journalism, recognising her extensive writing on the subject for several publications over a number of years".[13]

Works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wolinsky . David . Wendy Grossman . Don't Die . 4 April 2015 . 9 October 2020.
  2. Web site: Editorial Board . The Skeptic . September 2020 . 24 September 2020.
  3. Web site: Remembering the future : interviews from personal computer world / Wendy Grossman, ed. . Trove . 24 September 2020.
  4. Web site: Grossman . Wendy . net.wars . NYU Press . https://web.archive.org/web/20060615001904/http://www.nyupress.org/netwars/ . 24 September 2020. 2006-06-15 .
  5. Web site: Grossman . Wendy . Wendy M. Grossman: who? . Pelican Crossing . 24 September 2020.
  6. Web site: Our Executive Board and Honorary President . ABSW . 24 September 2020.
  7. Web site: Wendy Grossman . ORG Open Rights Group . 24 September 2020.
  8. Web site: CSI announces new Fellows . 7 February 2011 . . 2011-08-07.
  9. Web site: Archie Fisher – The Man With A Rhyme . 9 October 2019 . Discogs.
  10. Web site: Grossman . Wendy . Chronicle writer, local folk legend Bill Steele '54 dies at 86 . Cornell Chronicle . 24 September 2020.
  11. Web site: A psychic named Shirley . . December 14, 2004. July 22, 2021.
  12. Shirley Ghostman and Me . French, Chris. Chris French. . April 20, 2005. July 22, 2021.
  13. Web site: Wendy M Grossman . Raconteur . 24 September 2020.
  14. Book: Grossman . Wendy . Remembering the future : interviews from personal computer world . 1997 . Springer . London . 3540760954.
  15. Book: Grossman . Wendy . Net.wars . 1997 . . New York . 978-0814731031.
  16. Book: Grossman . Wendy . From anarchy to power : the net comes of age . 2001 . . New York . 0814731414.
  17. Book: Grossman . Wendy . The Daily Telegraph A–Z guide to the Internet . 2001 . Macmillan . London . 0333905571.
  18. Book: Grossman . Wendy . The Daily Telegraph small business guide to computer networking : what you need to know about using technology to improve your business . 2003 . Macmillan . London . 1405021039.
  19. Web site: Wendy M. Grossman . Amazon.co.uk . 12 August 2014.
  20. Web site: inauthor:"Wendy Grossman" . Google Books . 12 August 2014 .
  21. Book: Grossman . Wendy M. . Why statues weep : the best of The skeptic . 2017 . London . 978-1138161573 . 1st.

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