David Mertz

David Mertz
Born	1964
Occupation	Columnist

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^[1] and serves on the IEEE Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange project.^[2] He 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

• Mertz, David (Winter 1989). "Hattiangadi's Langue-ing and Ours". Social Epistemology 3 (1).
• Mertz, David (Fall 1990). "Peer Commentary on Eric Dietrich's "Computationalism"". Social Epistemology 4 (3).
• Shüklenk, Udo and David Mertz (1993). "Christliche Kirchen und AIDS". in (1993) in Edgar Dahl: Die Lehre des Unheils: Fundamentalkritik am Christentum. Hamburg: Carlsen Verlag. ISBN 3-551-85012-7. 
• Mertz, David (Summer 1995). "The Racial Other in Nationalist Subjectivations: A Lacanian Analysis". Rethinking Marxism 8 (2).
• Mertz, David (Spring 1996). "Sex Wars: The New Left's AIDS-related Scientism". Rethinking Marxism 9 (1).
• Mertz, David; Mary Ann Sushinsky, Udo Schueklenk (April 1996). "Women and AIDS: The Ethics of Exaggerated Harm". Bioethics 10 (2).
• Mertz, David (1999). The Speculum and The Scalpel: The Politics of Impotent Representation and Nonrepresentational Terrorism (PDF). Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherest. Retrieved on 2006-03-09.
• Mertz, David (February 2000). "The Net's New Enclosures: Review of Lawrence Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace". Radical Philosophy Review 3 (1).
• Mertz, David (2001). "Compression and Streaming of XML Documents: The Entropy of Documents". Intel Developer Network.
• Mertz, David (2001). "Optimizing xml2struct Processing for Embedded Applications". Intel Developer Network.
• Mertz, David (2003). Text Processing in Python (HTML), Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 0-321-11254-7. 
• Mertz, David (November 2004). "Review of Steve Martinot's "The Rule of Racialization"". Radical Philosophy Review 7 (2).
• Keller, Arthur M., Alan Dechert, Karl Auerbach, David Mertz, and Amy Pearl (2006). "A Voting System with a Modular Voting Architecture and an Electronic Audit Trail" (pdf). 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..
• Keller, Arthur M., David Mertz, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, and Arnold Urken (2006). "Privacy Issues in an Electronic Voting Machine" (pdf). in (2006) in Katherine J. Strandburg and Daniela Stan Raicu: Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation. New York: Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 0-387-26050-1. 

References

External links

• Gnosis Software, David Mertz's website
• Charming Python
• XML Matters