David Mertz

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David Mertz (born 1964) is an author and columnist for IBM's developerWorks, Intel Developer Services, O'Reilly's ONLamp, and other online publications. Formerly an academic philosopher who specialized in postmodernism, he is currently vice-president and chief technology officer of the Open Voting Consortium [cite web|url=http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/about_ovc |work=Open Voting Consortium website |title=About OVC |accessdate=2006-03-09
Mertz is listed under "Current Board Members" and further details appear lower on the page.] and serves on the IEEE "Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange" project. [cite web|url=http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc38/1622/ |work=IEEE website |title=IEEE P1622 - Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange |accessdate=2006-03-09
Mertz is listed as Technical Editor.] He is a member of the Python Software Foundation [cite web|url=http://www.python.org/psf/members/ |work=Python Software Foundation website |title=PSF Membership Roster |accessdate=2008-09-26] and maintains Gnosis Utilities, a widely used public domain Python package.

Mertz graduated in 1987 from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in philosophy and mathematics. He completed his M.A. in philosophy in 1991 at the University of Massachusetts, and received his Ph.D. from the same university in 1999 for a philosophy thesis. He has held teaching posts in philosophy at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Hartford.

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

Mertz is the author of the book "Text Processing in Python", a Haskell programming language tutorial, and papers on computer programming topics such as metaclass programming in Python, multiple dispatch, and cryptology. He writes the programming columns "Charming Python" and "XML Matters".

Published works

* cite journal
first=David|last=Mertz
year=1989|month=Winter|volume=3|issue=1
title=Hattiangadi's Langue-ing and Ours
journal=Social Epistemology
doi=10.1080/02691728908578516
pages=71
* cite journal
first=David|last=Mertz
year=1990|month=Fall|volume=4|issue=3
title=Peer Commentary on Eric Dietrich's "Computationalism"
journal=Social Epistemology
* cite paper
author=Shüklenk, Udo and David Mertz
title=Christliche Kirchen und AIDS
date=1993 in cite book
editor=Edgar Dahl
year=1993
title=Die Lehre des Unheils: Fundamentalkritik am Christentum
publisher=Carlsen Verlag
location=Hamburg
id=ISBN 3-551-85012-7
* cite journal
first=David|last=Mertz
year=1995|month=Summer|volume=8|issue=2
title=The Racial Other in Nationalist Subjectivations: A Lacanian Analysis
journal=Rethinking Marxism
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first=David|last=Mertz
year=1996|month=Spring|volume=9|issue=1
title=Sex Wars: The New Left's AIDS-related Scientism
journal=Rethinking Marxism
* cite journal
first=David|last=Mertz
coauthors=Mary Ann Sushinsky, Udo Schueklenk
year=1996|month=April|volume=10|issue=2
title=Women and AIDS: The Ethics of Exaggerated Harm
journal=Bioethics
doi=10.1111/j.1467-8519.1996.tb00110.x
pages=93
author=Mertz+, David; Sushinsky+, Mary Ann; Schuklenk, Udo
* cite web
url=http://gnosis.cx/publish/mertz/Dissertation_PageFormat.pdf
first=David|last=Mertz
year=1999
title=The Speculum and The Scalpel: The Politics of Impotent Representation and Nonrepresentational Terrorism
format=PDF
publisher=Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherest
accessdate=2006-03-09
* cite journal
first=David|last=Mertz
year=2000|month=February|volume=3|issue=1
title=The Net's New Enclosures: Review of Lawrence Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
journal=Radical Philosophy Review
author=Mertz+, David; Sushinsky+, Mary Ann; Schuklenk, Udo
* cite paper
author=Mertz, David
title=Compression and Streaming of XML Documents: The Entropy of Documents
date=2001
publisher=Intel Developer Network
url=http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/xml_compression.html
* cite paper
author=Mertz, David
title=Optimizing xml2struct Processing for Embedded Applications
date=2001
publisher=Intel Developer Network
url=http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/xml_compression_2.html
* cite book
first=David|last=Mertz
year=2003
title=Text Processing in Python
publisher=Addison-Wesley Professional
id=ISBN 0-321-11254-7
url=http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/|format=HTML
* cite journal
first=David|last=Mertz
year=2004|month=November|volume=7|issue=2
title=Review of Steve Martinot's "The Rule of Racialization"
journal=Radical Philosophy Review
author=Mertz+, David; Sushinsky+, Mary Ann; Schuklenk, Udo
* cite paper
author=Keller, Arthur M., Alan Dechert, Karl Auerbach, David Mertz, and Amy Pearl
title=A Voting System with a Modular Voting Architecture and an Electronic Audit Trail
date=2006
url=http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/keller/2006/OVC_arch_paper_VSR_Workshop_20060601.pdf
publisher="Threat Analyses for Voting System Categories: A Workshop on Rating Voting Methods (VSRW 06)", John Kelsey and Poorvi Vora, eds., Washington DC, June 8-9, 2006.
format=PDF
* cite paper
author=Keller, Arthur M., David Mertz, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, and Arnold Urken
title=Privacy Issues in an Electronic Voting Machine
date=2006
url=http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/keller/2005/privacy-electronic-voting-chapter.pdf
format=pdf in cite book
editor=Katherine J. Strandburg and Daniela Stan Raicu
title=Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation
publisher=Springer Science+Business Media
location=New York
year=2006
id=ISBN 0-387-26050-1

References

External links

* [http://gnosis.cx/publish/ Gnosis Software] , David Mertz's website
* " [http://gnosis.cx/publish/tech_index_cp.html Charming Python] "
* " [http://gnosis.cx/publish/tech_index_xm.html XML Matters] "