David Alan Grier (writer)

"[5] Backed by a team of talented actors, the podcast attempts to take an insightful and yet humorous look at the issues of technology, organization, innovation, work, and creativity.

His book When Computers Were Human explored early want of using massed labor to process data and showed that most of the ideas of crowdsourcing predated the internet.

Djaghe, LLC works with clients in the United States along with Asia, Europe and South America, on topics dealing with technology and trade issues.

He attended Middlebury College in Vermont, where he studied with the writers Barry Hannah and Tom Gavin, and he spent most of his spare time in the computer center writing a word processor, though he was nominally a mathematics major.

He attended the University of Washington in Seattle, where he received a doctorate in Mathematical Statistics even though he spent much of his spare time doing amateur improv.