Technology Review

James Coyle is the chief operating officer at Technology Review. Before joining TR, he was the senior financial manager and controller for RetroFit Technologies in Milford, MA, a computer services company with a client base made up of Massachusetts and Connecticut government agencies as well as commercial customers. Jim has also worked for other high-tech companies, including SeaChange International, a software and hardware developer selling into cable companies for video-on-demand products, and Praxis International, a software developer for larger systems. He has a bachelor of science degree in economics and finance from Southern New Hampshire University and an MBA with a concentration in accounting from Bentley College.

Maureen Elmaleh is the senior vice president and director of advertising sales at Technology Review, leading the sales team. Maureen's career started at Ziff Davis with PC Magazine. She then spent eight successful years with Rodale at Runner's World magazine and www.runnersworld.com. She left to join Gannett at USA Weekend one of the largest magazines in the country, with a circulation of 23 million where she consistently exceeded her sales goals. She most recently worked at the newly formed Time Inc. Business and Finance Network with Money, Fortune, Fortune Small Business, Business 2.0, and cnnmoney.com, where she successfully sold integrated marketing ideas. Maureen has a BA in psychology from the University of Colorado.

On August 1, 2006, Alice P. Gast became Lehigh University's 13th president. Previously she was the Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to moving to MIT in 2001, she spent 16 years as a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University and at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. In her research she studies surface and interfacial phenomena, in particular the behavior of complex fluids. Some of her areas of research include colloidal aggregation and ordering, protein lipid interactions and enzymes reactions at surfaces. In 1997 Gast co-authored the sixth edition of "Physical Chemistry of Surfaces." with Arthur Adamson. Professor Gast received her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Southern California. After earning her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton University, Gast spent a postdoctoral year on a NATO fellowship at the Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris. She returned there for a sabbatical as a Guggenheim Fellow. She was a 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Technical University in Garching, Germany. She received the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiative in Research, and the Colburn Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. She has served on numerous advisory committees including the NRC Board on Chemical Science and Technology, and the Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee. She was elected to the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006.

While cautioning that the Berlin case could be a fluke, David Baltimore, who won a Nobel prize for his research on tumor viruses, deemed it "a very good sign" and a virtual "proof of principle" for gene-therapy approaches. Dr. Baltimore and his colleague, University of California at Los Angeles researcher Irvin Chen, have developed a gene therapy strategy against HIV that works in a similar way to the Berlin case. Drs. Baltimore and Chen have formed a private company to develop the therapy.

David Rotman is the editor of Technology Review. He supervises editorial for both the print magazine and the website. A science and business journalist, he has written extensively on chemistry, biotechnology, materials science, and environmental issues. He joined Technology Review in January 1998 as a senior editor covering nanotechnology. Before joining Technology Review, Rotman was managing senior editor at Chemical Week magazine in New York City, where he supervised coverage of technology, research, and environmental issues. He has a BS degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Nate Nickerson is the deputy editor of Technology Review. Before joining the magazine in 2004, he served for three years as managing editor of the award-winning business magazine Fast Company. Earlier, he worked at Cook's Illustrated, where he managed the production of the magazine and helped launch the company's website, for which he served as managing editor. Between his stints at Fast Company and Technology Review, he edited a book about mergers and acquisitions. He is a graduate of Beloit College.

Ken Colburn has been involved in the computer industry since the mid 80's when he founded Data Doctors. Ken writes a weekly computer advice column, hosts the weekly "Computer Corner" radio show on KTAR Radio in Phoenix as well as being a weekly featured contributor to CNN.com. He previously hosted a Cox Television technology show named "Tech-No-Phobia". Ken's ability to explain technology to the average user has made him a popular speaker at schools, computer clubs and national conferences. Ken has also been a featured columnist in The Business Journal, eBay magazine, BizAZ magazine and is a frequent guest on TechTV, a 24 hour national cable channel. Ken is a certified Community College instructor and serves on the advisory board of several communities. Ken is also on the Technology Review board for the International Franchise Association (IFA). Site contents 1988-2008 by Data Doctors Franchise Systems Inc.

Ann Wolpert became Director of Libraries for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in January 1996. Recently, Wolpert also assumed oversight of Technology Review magazine. Wolpert's Institute responsibilities include membership on the Committee on Copyright and Patents, the Council on Educational Technology, the Campus Plan Steering Committee, the Deans' Committee, and the President's Academic Council. She chairs the Management Board of the MIT Press, serves on the Open Courseware Interim Management Board, and is Co-chair of the Internal Review Committee for Financial Systems Services and Information Systems. Prior to joining MIT, Wolpert was Executive Director of Library and Information Services at the Harvard Business School. Her experience also includes management of the Information Center of Arthur D. Little, Inc., where she additionally engaged in consulting assignments. More recent consulting assignments have taken her to Adelphi University in New York, to the campuses of INCAE in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and to the Malaysia University of Science and Technology, Selangor, Malaysia.