Wade Roush

Wade Roush is Chief Correspondent for Xconomy. He is a veteran science and technology writer whose recent work has focused on startups and innovation, consumer Internet technology, social computing, geocomputing, virtual worlds, and the visual Web. He lives in Boston with his Australian Shepherd dog, Rhody, and blogs informally at Travels with Rhody.

As a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, Roush served as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com, and helped lead the magazine to a nomination as National Magazine Award finalist in 2006. Before joining TR, he was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer Nuvomedia.

Roush graduated Magna cum Laude in the history of science from Harvard College in 1989 and earned a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT in 1994. His work has appeared in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and he has been a guest of CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and NPR.

Where I grew up

Charlotte, MI

Companies I've worked for

Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nuvomedia/Gemstar; Sterling Software/NASA Ames Research Center; American Association for the Advancement of Science

Schools I've attended

Harvard College; Massachusetts Institute of Technology