Stephen L. Baker is an American journalist, author and blogger. His first published book, The Numerati, discusses the increasing role that data-mining plays in shaping politics, business, law enforcement, and even romance. It highlights the mathematicians, consultants and programmers who harness the information to learn more about people as consumers, employees, voters and lovers, and use it to target them more precisely. Formerly a senior writer...
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Stephen L. Baker is an American journalist, author and blogger. His first published book, The Numerati, discusses the increasing role that data-mining plays in shaping politics, business, law enforcement, and even romance. It highlights the mathematicians, consultants and programmers who harness the information to learn more about people as consumers, employees, voters and lovers, and use it to target them more precisely. Formerly a senior writer at BusinessWeek, Baker left the magazine in December 2009.
In early 2011, Houghton Mifflin published Baker's next book Final Jeopardy, which follows IBM's development of Watson an artificial intelligence computer system designed to play human contestants in the television game show Jeopardy.
Baker grew up in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. He attended Harriton High School and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he majored in Spanish and History. He attended the University of Madrid in Spain during his junior year. He...
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