David Alan Grier is the editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and is an associate professor in the Science and Technology Policy at the George Washington University. He claims to be third generation computer scientist. He worked on the design team for the Burroughs Scientific Processor in the 1980s; his father, Thomas Grier, joined Univac in the 1950s and lead the Burroughs user group CUBE in the 1960s and 1970s; and his grandmother, Blanch O’Kane, was trained as a human computer at the University of Michigan in the 1920s. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Middlebury College and a PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington. He now writes extensively on the social aspects of computers. His articles have appeared in a list of periodicals that includes the Communications of the ACM, Chance, the American Mathematical Monthly, The Christian Science Monitor and the Washington Post. He lives in the District of Columbia.