David Mertz

David Mertz (born 1964) is an author and columnist for IBM s developerWorks, Intel Developer Services, O Reilly Media, and other online publications. Formerly an academic Philosophy who specialized in postmodernism, he is currently vice-president and chief technology officer of the Open Voting Consortium and serves on the IEEE Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange project. He maintains Gnosis Utilities, a widely used public domain Python programming language package (see #External links).

Mertz graduated in 1987 from the .

Philosophical journals that Mertz has written for include Social Epistemology , Bioethics , Rethinking Marxism , and Radical Philosophy Review .

He is the author of Text Processing in Python , also published as an online book, as well as papers on Metaclass programming in Python, multiple dispatch, cryptology, and a Haskell programming language tutorial. Columns he writes include Charming Python , [http://gnosis.cx/publish/tech_index_cp.html] and XML Matters . [http://gnosis.cx/publish/tech_index_xm.html]

=References =

Mertz is listed under Current Board Members and further details appear lower on the page

Mertz is listed as Technical Editor

Hattiangadi s Langue-ing and Ours , Social Epistemology[http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02691728.asp] 3(1), Winter 1989

Peer Commentary on Eric Dietrich s Computationalism , Social Epistemology 4(3), Fall 1990

Women and AIDS: The Ethics of Exaggerated Harm ,

The Racial Other in Nationalist Subjectivations: A Lacanian Analysis , Rethinking Marxism[http://www.rethinkingmarxism.org/] 8(2), Summer 1995

Sex Wars: The New Left s AIDS-related Scientism , Rethinking Marxism 9(1), Spring 1996/1997

The Net s New Enclosures: Review of Lawrence Lessig s Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace , Radical Philosophy Review[http://www.pdcnet.org/rpr.html]. 3(1), February 2000

Review of Steve Martinot s The Rule of Racialization , Radical Philosophy Review. 7(2), November 2004

=External links =

[http://gnosis.cx/publish/ Gnosis Software], David Mertz s website

[http://gnosis.cx/publish/resumes/cv.txt Mertz s curriculum vitae]

=Further reading=

*Mertz, David. [http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ Text Processing in Python ], Addison Wesley, ISBN 0321112547