Brian HayesBiography
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.
Addresses:
bhayes@amsci.org
brian@bit-player.org
Brian Hayes
211 Dacian Avenue
Durham, NC 27701
U.S.A.
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