ZDNET columnist | Award-winning AI innovator and founder | Media personality and book author | UC Berkeley advisory board, CNN, Economist, Apple alumni | Puppy daddy and robot wrangler
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Claim your profileDavid Gewirtz is the author of world-changing books on improving White House IT security, reinvigorating America’s role in the global economy, and reinventing business. He is featured in The History Channel special The President's Book of Secrets, and is CBS Interactive's Distinguished Lecturer as well as the host of the ZDNet Government and DIY-IT blogs. David currently teaches computer science at the UC Berkeley extension. He is also director of the U.S. Strategic Perspective Institute and the Cyberwarfare Advisor for the IACSP. David is a columnist for The Journal of Counterterrorism and Homeland Security and is a member of FBI InfraGard and the U.S. Naval Institute. David was formerly a CNN contributor to the Anderson Cooper 360 program and has been a guest commentator for the Nieman Watchdog of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He has also been a guest lecturer at the National Defense University and the University of New Hampshire School of Law. He is also the author of The Flexible Enterprise, the classic book that served as a foundation for today's agile business movement. "One of America's foremost cyber-security experts, and a top expert on saving and creating jobs." -- CNN "A leading presidential scholar." -- Anderson Cooper 360 "Part mad scientist, part celebrity author, and part shadowy government adviser." -- ZDNet "David Gewirtz view of cyberwar ... the clearest and most interesting." -- Frontline Security Magazine






Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science, Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteGraduated: 1982