David Mertz

David Mertz (born 1964) is an author and columnist for IBM's developerWorks, Intel Developer Services, O'Reilly's ONLamp, and other online publications. He is on the board of directors of the Python Software Foundation and maintains Gnosis Utilities, a widely used public domain Python package. Formerly an academic philosopher who specialized in postmodernism, he served as vice-president and chief technology officer of the Open Voting Consortium and on the IEEE Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange project. Mertz graduated in 1987 from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in philosophy and mathematics. He completed his M.A. in philosophy in 1991 at the University of Massachusetts, and received his Ph.D. from the same university in...