David Fisco develops new media and software for the Internet. He is a tech journalist, practitioner and programmer who consults to companies in the technical and communication areas.

He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Java Report (SIGS Publications, NYC), and created and served as host for IDG's Streaming JavaWorld, a webcast about trends in software development. Dave was a Contributing Editor and consultant to EarthWeb, Inc., a contributor to Developer.com, a blogger for the IEEE and a book columnist for Datamation magazine.

Current and former consulting clients include IBM; ERM, Inc. and various educational institutions.

Dave holds a B.A. with College Honors from Rutgers University where he was named a Rutgers Scholar. He did additional graduate-level work in applied statistics. He contends, however, that the only knowledge worth acquiring is that which is acquired auto-didactically.

Anti-collectivist and independent, David Fisco is a student and advocate of Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. He does all of his professional and personal computing on Linux, and types only on Dvorak keyboards.