Sean Gallagher

Sean Gallagher is the IT editor at Ars Technica. A University of Wisconsin grad, he wrote his first program in high school on a DEC PDP-10, and his first database app on a dual-floppy Apple II. Sean served four years as a naval officer, including a tour aboard the USS Iowa (BB-61), and at a river patrol boat squadron (where discovery of his computer skills landed him the assignments of network administrator and computer security officer). Aside from a few dark years as a systems integrator and a stint as Ziff Davis Enterprise's director of IT strategy, Sean has been either in the review lab or on a tech beat for most of the last two decades. A telecommuter since 1995, Sean lives and works in Baltimore. When not jacked in, he can often be found with his family, behind a camera, or on a bike trail.