by Michael Cooney

Senior Editor

The greatest nerds of all

Opinion

Mar 21, 20051 min

Being one ourselves, we can truly appreciate Sync Magazine’s 50 Biggest Nerds of All Time list, which spans science, technology, entertainment, sports and seemingly everything in between.

How can you go wrong with any list that includes Archimedes, Anthony Michael Hall, Dean Kamen, Mayor McCheese and Cliff Clavin? Now that’s a grouping.

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Data Center

by Michael Cooney

Senior Editor

Michael is a senior editor with Network World focused on deciphering the strategies of many core high-tech vendors such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE and IBM. Michael has been writing about the industry for more than 33 years and has won coverage awards from ASBPE and FOLIO. He has a BA in Journalism and Technical Writing Certificate from The Pennsylvania State University.

He can be reached at michael_cooney@foundryco.com.

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