Michael Floyd

Michael Floyd is an editor, writer and technical journalist with more than 25 years experience in magazine, book, and Web publishing. He has served as an editor to numerous high-tech magazines including PC Magazine. He was the first Editor in Chief of Web Techniques magazine, and served as the Executive Editor at Dr. Dobb's Journal, the oldest and largest magazine for software developers. Michael is currently the Editor in Chief of InfoQ.com. His publishing credits soar into the hundreds, and include four books, 3 newsletter launches, two magazine launches, and countless articles, columns and opinion/editorial pieces.

Michael began his career in 1984 at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California where he worked on the Arpanet and Milnet networks. These would later be dubbed "the Internet." While with NASA Michael also launched SofTrek, a Bulletin Board System designed to share public domain software developed by the space agency. In the mid 1990's, Michael met Tim Behrners Lee, Dr. Charles Goldfarb and other pioneers of the World Wide Web. His third book, "Building Web Sites with XML" appeared in the "Definitive Charles Goldfarb Series," and sold out its first printing before reaching book stores.

You can follow Michael's current activities on twitter at @codeJournalist.