Tom Merritt

Updated: 11/16/2019 by Computer Hope
Tom Merritt

Name: Thomas Andrew "Tom" Merritt

Born: June 28, 1970, in Greenville, Illinois USA

Computer-related contributions

  • Former host of Tech News Today, a daily show on Leo Laporte's TWiT.tv Netcast Network.
  • Former executive editor for CNET and co-host and developer of the daily podcast Buzz Out Loud.
  • From 1999 to 2004 Merritt worked for TechTV in San Francisco as an Executive Web Producer and served as a radio host with TechTV until 2003.

Significant publications

  • Lot Beta (2013).
  • Chronology of Tech History (2012).
  • United Moon Colonies (2007).
  • Boiling Point (2001), a sci-fi novel which describes a near future United States civil war.

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