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William J. (Chip) Walter Jr. (born May 23, 1951) is an American science writer, documentary filmmaker, journalist and screenwriter. He was one of the original employees at Cable News Network when it went on the air June 1, 1980 and later became its youngest bureau chief when he created CNN's first Southeast Bureau before heading up the network's San Francisco Bureau. After departing CNN Walter wrote and produced several award winning documentaries for PBS including work on the Emmy Award winning science series Planet Earth (1986) and Infinite Voyage (1986-1989), the first PBS series to air on both public and commercial television. He also wrote and produced a college-credit tele course which followed the Planet Earth series. His program "Fires of the Mind," became the premiere show for the Infinite Voyage series. It dealt with the evolution of human intelligence and creativity, themes Walter has returned to many times in his work. Variety called the documentary "Handsomely produced, beautifully written...a fascinating hour." The Village Voice wrote that it delivered " a sense of human accomplishment, which is the true ambition of science on the air." Beginning in 1989, following his work on Infinite Voyage, Walter developed a new series for WQED entitled Space Age to celebrate the International Space Year in 1992, the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus's voyage to the New World in 1492. The multi-million dollar six part series, which was PBS's primetime series in the fall of 1992, was hosted by Patrick Stewart. Walter went on to write the series' companion book by the same title published by Random House in 1992 under the name William J. Walter Jr. He has also served on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University at the Mellon Institute of Science,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chem.cmu.edu/groups/Collins/about/members/walter.html )〕 the School of Fine Arts and the Entertainment Technology Center at the School of Computer Science. He pioneered early children's learning games with the launch of Digital Alchemy in 1994. The company later created the first GeoBee learning game for the National Geographic Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.etc.cmu.edu/site/people/faculty-record?fid=wwalter )〕 Walter has published four mainstream science books on a wide variety of subjects. His 2006 book, ''Thumbs, Toes and Tears–And Other Traits That Make Us Human'' was translated into five languages. "Last Ape Standing" has been published into three non-English languages, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish. He has written for a variety of national and international publications including "National Geographic Magazine,"''The Economist,'' "Slate," "The Wall Street Journal," ''Scientific American'', "Scientific American Mind,"''Discover'', and the ''Boston Globe.'' ==Bibliography== *Walter, Chip. Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million Year Story of How and Why We Survived. New York: Walker & Company, 2013. According to WorldCat, book is held in 956 libraries 〔 *Walter, Chip. ''Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human.'' New York: Walker & Co, 2006. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1006 libraries〔( WorldCat author listing )〕 *Walter, William J. ''Space Age'' New York : Random House, ©1992. According to WorldCat, book is held in 1027 libraries 〔 *Shatner, William, and Chip Walter. ''Star Trek. A Trek from Science Fiction to Science Fact.'' New York: Pocket Books, 2002. According to WorldCat, held in 624 libraries 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chip Walter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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