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John Markoff (born October 24, 1949) is a journalist best known for his work at ''The New York Times'', and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick. == Biography == Markoff was born in Oakland, California and grew up in Palo Alto, California. He graduated from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, with a BA in Sociology in 1971. Additionally he received a MA in sociology from the University of Oregon in 1976.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nndb.com/people/176/000088909/ )〕 After leaving graduate school, he returned to California where he began writing for Pacific News Service, an alternative news syndicate based in San Francisco. He freelanced for a number of publications including ''The Nation'', ''Mother Jones'' and ''Saturday Review''. In 1981 he became part of the original staff of the computer industry weekly ''InfoWorld''. In 1984 he became an editor at ''Byte Magazine'' and in 1985 he left to become a reporter in the business section of the ''San Francisco Examiner'', where he wrote about Silicon Valley. In 1988 he moved to New York to write for the business section of the ''New York Times''. In November 1988 he reported that Robert Tappan Morris, son of National Security Agency cryptographer Robert Morris, was the author of what would become known as the Internet worm. In December 1993 he wrote an early article about the World Wide Web, referring to it as a "map to the buried treasures of the Information Age." 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「John Markoff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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