Sam Williams - 758 Union St. #3 - Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215 - sam@inow.com
Experience:
Freelance Writer (1993 - present)
Clients/Publications include: Salon, New York Sun, New York Post, Upside Magazine, San Francisco Examiner, ZDTV, Stanford Magazine, Marketplace Radio, South China Morning Post, East Bay Monthly, Oakland Montclarion, Myrtle Beach Sun-News, Canadian Stock Market Reporter, KRON-TV, KCBS-TV and KMEX-TV.
Author, ARGUING A.I.: The Battle over 21st Century Science, a "compact, yet detailed" introduction to the history of Artificial Intelligence and the controversy surrounding it [Publisher's Weekly]. Published by Random House, Jan. 2002.
Author, FREE AS IN FREEDOM: Richard Stallman's Free Software Crusade, a 250 page biography of free software pioneer Richard M. Stallman. Published by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc., March 2002.
Columnist, Upside Today (May 1998 - Jan. 2001)
Penned two columns, "Open Season," a thrice-weekly look at the open source software community and "Down the Toilet," a weekly examination into the corrosive effects of money, fashion and politics on the engineering culture of Silicon Valley.
Producer, "High Country Climber" (Dec. 1995 - Sept. 1997)
Supervised show and segment production for a half-hour sports magazine series broadcast nationally on the Outdoor Life Network. Developed show from concept to broadcast. Directed field production, story development and editing. Four years after initial broadcast, rerun episodes remain a staple of OLN prime time programming.
Editor, UC Systemwide Biotechnology Program (Oct. 1994 - April 1996)
Edited "Profiles in Biotechnology," a book-length series of science profiles documenting the University of California's impact on the U.S. biotechnology industry.
Producer, KALX news (June 1995 - May 1996)
Produced and co-anchored daily newscast on UC Berkeley campus radio station.
Education:
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Masters of Journalism, 1995
Stanford University
A.B. History, 1991