Biography

Brian Hayes is Senior Writer for American Scientist. Since 1993 he has been writing the "Computing Science" column for the magazine. Earlier, he wrote similar columns for Scientific American, for Computer Language and for The Sciences. From 1972 to 1984 he was an editor of Scientific American; from 1990 to 1992 to he was the editor of American Scientist. He has been a visitor at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.

A collection of Hayes's columns, titled Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions, was published by Hill and Wang in 2008. Hayes is also the author of Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape (W. W. Norton, 2005). And he has a weblog called bit-player that covers much the same territory as the "Computing Science" column.

He is on sabbatical through 2010.

Addresses:

bhayes@amsci.org

brian@bit-player.org

Brian Hayes
211 Dacian Avenue
Durham, NC 27701
U.S.A.

By this author :

Book Review
	Never a Dull Number
	Viva Voce
	Crosshatching in the Crosshairs
	An Epistolary Episode
	Books-A-Million
	Monty Hall Redux
	Programs and Probabilities
	A Mathematician's Trajectory
	Semiconductor Real Estate
	Art in Code *
	Calculating the Weather
	A Paradise of Choice?
	Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Gaia!
	Coping with Selfishness
	Genius Unappreciated
	Anthropology for Mathematicians
	Structures
	Resistance Is Feudal
	On the Complex Plane
	The Search for Rigor
	Matter in Motion
	From Motricity to Mentality
	In Postmodernist Territory
Computing Science
	Hip-Hop Physics
	The Higher Arithmetic
	The Best Bits
	Everything Is Under Control
	Writing Math on the Web
	Automation on the Job
	Getting Your Quarks in a Row
	Calculemus!
	The Britney Spears Problem
	How Many Ways Can You Spell V1@gra?
	Sorting Out the Genome
	Computing in a Parallel Universe
	Accidental Algorithms
	Computational Photography
	Wagering with Zeno
	Foolproof
	Fat Tails
	Trains of Thought
	Up a Lazy River
	Connecting the Dots
	The Semicolon Wars
	Gauss's Day of Reckoning
	Reverse Engineering
	Unwed Numbers
	Group Theory in the Bedroom
	Life Cycles
	Rumours and Errours
	Why W?
	Naming Names
	Ode to the Code
	Bugs That Count
	Undisciplined Science
	g-OLOGY
	Small-Town Story
	Qwerks of History
	A Lucid Interval
	In Search of the Optimal Scumsucking Bottomfeeder
	The Spectrum of Riemannium
	Spam, Spam, Spam, Lovely Spam
	The Post-OOP Paradigm
	On the Threshold
	Science on the Farther Shore
	Follow the Money
	The World According to Wolfram
	Terabyte Territory
	The Easiest Hard Problem
	Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
	The Computer and the Dynamo
	Randomness as a Resource
	Computing Comes to Life
	How to Count
	The Weatherman
	Third Base
	Dividing the Continent
	The World in a Spin
	On the Teeth of Wheels
	"The Nerds Have Won"
	Graph Theory in Practice: Part II
	Graph Theory in Practice: Part I
	Experimental Lamarckism
	Computational Creationism
	The Vibonacci Numbers
	Seeing between the Pixels
	The Web of Words
	E Pluribus Unum
	Identity Crisis
	Bit Rot
	How to Avoid Yourself
	Prototeins
	Collective Wisdom
	The Invention of the Genetic Code
	CAFEBABE
	Machine Politics
	Speaking of Mathematics
	The Square Root of NOT
Essay
	Natural and Unnatural Disasters
	Dennis Flanagan, 1919—2005
Nanoview
	Family Album