Christopher Mims is a technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal,[1] which he joined in 2014.[2]
Christopher Mims | |
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Born | United States |
Alma mater | Emory University |
Occupation | Technology journalist |
Employer | The Wall Street Journal |
Mims received a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University in 2001.[2]
Mims taught English in Japan for six months and worked in a neuroscience lab.[3][4] He was a science and technology correspondent and editor for Quartz,[5] and also worked as an editor at Scientific American,[6] Technology Review, Smithsonian and Grist.[citation needed] Mims was also a producer at Small Mammal,[7] where he helped director John Pavlus produce science videos for Slate, Popular Science, and Nature.[citation needed]
Mims covered the converging crises of the 21st century for Grist.[8]
Mims was a contributing editor at MIT Technology Review between 2011 and 2012.[9]
On 14 July 2014, Mims, writing in The Wall Street Journal, said the password "is finally dying" and predicted their replacement by device-based authentication, however, purposefully revealing his Twitter password resulted in being forced to change his cellphone number.[10]
In January 2015, Taylor Lorenz announced her engagement to Mims.[11]
Herberholz and his colleagues, including Georgia State professor Donald Edwards, Georgia State lab technician Christopher Mims, and Emory University's Xiaodong Zhang and Xiaoping Hu, developed manganese-enhanced MRI to study the crayfish brain.