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Ashlee Vance (born 1977) is an American
business columnist.
Personal
life
Born in South
Africa, Vance grew up in Houston, Texas and attended St. John's School. He now works in Mountain View,
California.
Print
Media
Vance is primarily known for writing for The Register
from March 2003[1] to
August 2008,[2] but
moved to the New York Times in September 2008.[3] Vance
covered companies such as IBM, HP, Intel, and Dell, and also writes about a wide range of
technology topics, including robots and Segway scooters. He tends to
write in a sarcastic, cynical tone, much as one would read in
MAD Magazine.
Vance has written a book, called Geek Silicon Valley,
on the history of the Silicon Valley.[4] His
writing often also appears in such publications as the The Economist,
Chicago
Tribune, CNN.com, the Globe and Mail,
the International Herald
Tribune, and CNET.
Semi-Coherent Computing
podcast
Vance hosts an audio podcast called Semi-Coherent
Computing,[5][6] in
which he discusses enterprise computing topics such as Datacenter cooling and blade servers, and
interviews notable guests including chip pioneer David Ditzel of Transmeta, Sun
Microsystems, and Bell
Labs.[7]
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