BYTE editorial staffDave Andrews (dave.news@bix.com)
Dave has been a news editor at BYTE Magazine for seven years. Prior to that, he worked on other industry magazines, including 80 Micro.
Rowland Aertker (rowland@bix.com)
Rowland is a senior researcher at BYTE. He was formerly research editor at CFO Magazine and at Lotus Magazine. He holds a masters degree in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston and a bachelor of science in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.
Rex Baldazo (rbaldazo@bix.com)
Rex started as a testing editor for the BYTE Reviews department, and is currently assigned to the BYTE Network Project. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 1989 with a BS in Electrical Engineering. Rex worked in Houston on NASA's Space Station project for four years, first with The MITRE Corporation and later McDonnell-Douglas Aerospace. With the threat of major layoffs in the space program, he moved to Vermont in 1993 to work on fuel management systems for the F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter with BFGoodrich Aerospace. On August, 1994, he started working at BYTE and his friends and family now rarely hear from him.
Edmund X. DeJesus (edejesus@bix.com )
Ed is a BYTE senior editor. He has a Ph.D. in physics and has been a professional programmer for over 15 years.
Dave has been a computer magazine editor and writer since 1986. He is in charge of assigning and editing all software reviews in the BYTE Lab, and is the magazine's contact for the monthly software roundups that are done at the National Software Testing Laboratories (NSTL). Essex also follows portable computing and communications technology.
Rich Friedman (rfriedman@bix.com)
Rich is BYTE's executive editor. He was a senior editor for Lotus Magazine, editor of PC Week and executive editor of Popular Computing magazine. Prior to his involvement with computer publications, Rich worked for the Associated Press in New York City.
Rick is a senior technical editor for BYTE reviews. He has a B.S. in physics and applied mathematics and an M.S. in mathematics/computer science.
Tom R. Halfhill (thalfhill@bix.com )
After receiving a degree in journalism from Kent State University in 1977, Tom began working as a newspaper reporter and soon encountered his first computer: a word processing terminal with 2 KB of RAM and a 300-baud modem. He cancelled his plans to buy an IBM Selectric typewriter and began learning about computers. In 1981, he bought an Atari 800 and started writing for computer magazines. During the 1980's, he launched and edited a technology newsletter and four magazines covering IBM, Atari, and Commodore computers. He also served as the editor of Compute Magazine and Game Players. In his spare time, he co-authored two computer books and has contributed to or edited 18 other books, including a trilogy on the Civil War and a true account of a mass murderer. In 1992, he joined BYTE as a senior editor at the West Coast bureau in San Mateo, California. He writes on a wide variety of topics for BYTE, specializing in microprocessors and the Macintosh. His hobbies include street photography, black-and-white darkroom work, and recreational programming on PCs and Macs.
Martha is a news editor responsible for the What's New Hardware and Software sections. She also does fact-checking on the NSTL lab reports and Jerry Pournelle's column.
Alan has been a writer and editor since graduating from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1977. Currently, he is a senior editor in BYTE's features department where he assigns and edits features and State of the Art articles. In his five years with the magazine, Alan has also coordinated the combined testing efforts of the BYTE Lab and NSTL. Prior to that, he was director of the BYTE Lab and a technical editor with the reviews department.
Russell Kay (russellk@bix.com)
Russ is a technical editor in the State of the Art/Features department at BYTE, where he has produced sections dealing with compilers, object databases, software internationalization, bus technology, network management, color matching, network security, telephony, and memory chips. His special areas of interest include information security, computing risks, and human factors, as well as typography and publication design.
Prior to joining BYTE in 1993, he was editor of Infosecurity News (Framingham, MA). Earlier, he was communications director for Computer Security Institute, where he edited and produced a newsletter and journal, programmed CP/M-based computers in dBase II, and helped plan and run two annual conferences for eight years. He has also been a college publications director, a professional photographer and graphic designer, a university press editor, and a Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil.
Outside the office, he plays a mean hammered dulcimer and pursues folk music festivals all over the Northeast. He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts, which is a 60-mile commute from Peterborough, so he evidently likes working at BYTE.
John Montgomery (jmontgomery@bix.com )
John is the features editor for BYTE Magazine which includes State of the Art and most cover stories. He was recently with PC Computing where he was also features editor. His degree is in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard. He has recently discovered karate and is currently worried about the next belt test he has to take.
Rafe Needleman is the editor-in-chief of Byte Magazine. Formerly Editor of Corporate Computing, he has also been executive editor for PC/Computing and the reviews editor at InfoWorld. Rafe's technical background includes managing the Advanced Technology Group at Ziff-Davis Labs; earlier in his career he worked as a dBase programmer and as a computer repairman.
Rafe has a BA in Psychology from Reed College. He learned how to program at UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science when he was twelve. Rafe gets his great telephone composure from experience working on the Suicide Prevention hotlines in San Francisco and in Portland, Oregon.
Dave is a BYTE technical editor in who assigns and edits standalone hardware reviews. He has a PhD in Zoology from the University of Massachusetts, and has been a technical or contributing editor for various computer magazines for the past ten years.
Salvatore Salamone (ssalamone@bix.com)
Sal is a BYTE news editor based in New York. He covers networking issues and New York area events for the magazine. Previously, he worked at Data Communications Magazine, Network World, Lightwave -- The Journal of Fiber Optics, and High Technology Magazine. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in physics from Boston College.
Mark Schlack (mschlack@bix.com)
Mark was the former Editor at Datamation, and holds the same title here at BYTE.
Tom Thompson (tom_thompson@bix.com , AppleLink: T.THOMPSON)
Tom is a BYTE senior technical editor at large with a B.S.E.E. from Memphis State University. He is an Associate Apple Developer and author of Power Macintosh Programming Starter Kit (Hayden Books, 1994).
Jon Udell (judell@bix.com) is BYTE's executive editor for new media.
Jon's beat includes Internet technologies, operating systems (Windows, NT, OS/2, NetWare), LANs and WANs, object-oriented and component-based software development, workflow, and electronic publishing. Jon holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and an MA in Writing about Science from The Johns Hopkins University.
