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Christopher Mims
Born
United States
Alma materEmory University
OccupationTechnology journalist
EmployerThe Wall Street Journal

Christopher Mims is a technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal,[1] which he joined in 2014.[2]

Early life

Mims received a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University in 2001.[2]

Career

Mims taught English in Japan for six months and worked in a neuroscience lab.[3][4] He was a science and technology correspondent and editor for Quartz,[5] and also worked as an editor at Scientific American,[6] Technology Review, Smithsonian and Grist.[citation needed] Mims was also a producer at Small Mammal,[7] where he helped director John Pavlus produce science videos for Slate, Popular Science, and Nature.[citation needed]

Mims covered the converging crises of the 21st century for Grist.[8]

Mims was a contributing editor at MIT Technology Review between 2011 and 2012.[9]

On 14 July 2014, Mims, writing in The Wall Street Journal, said the password "is finally dying" and predicted their replacement by device-based authentication, however, purposefully revealing his Twitter password resulted in being forced to change his cellphone number.[10]

Personal life

In January 2015, Taylor Lorenz announced her engagement to Mims.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Obama Voices Strong Support for Net Neutrality". Boston.com. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Christopher Mims". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  3. ^ "Researchers develop MRI technique to study brain anatomy in invertebrates". EurekAlert!. December 15, 2004. Retrieved July 2, 2022. Herberholz and his colleagues, including Georgia State professor Donald Edwards, Georgia State lab technician Christopher Mims, and Emory University's Xiaodong Zhang and Xiaoping Hu, developed manganese-enhanced MRI to study the crayfish brain.
  4. ^ "Christopher Mims Q&A". WSJ+. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  5. ^ "Christopher Mims — Technology Columnist". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on February 6, 2019. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  6. ^ Mims, Christopher. "Strange but True: Testosterone Alone Does Not Cause Violence". Scientific American. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  7. ^ "The Science of YouTube: Cuuute!". Popular Science. February 13, 2009. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  8. ^ "Christopher Mims". Grist. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  9. ^ "Christopher Mims Contributor". Technology Review. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
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  11. ^ "We're engaged! — Taylor Lorenz". February 17, 2020. Archived from the original on February 17, 2020. Retrieved March 22, 2022.

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