Clifford A. Pickover

Clifford Alan Pickover (born 1957) is an American author, editor and columnist who writes about science, mathematics, science fiction, innovation and creativity. For many years he worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York, where he was editor-in-chief of the IBM Journal of Research and Development. He took his doctorate in 1982 at Yale University in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, with research on X-ray scattering and protein structure. He has been granted more than 835 United States patents and has written more than 50 books, among them The Math Book, which won the 2011 Neumann Prize. His technical papers cover scientific visualization, computer art and recreational mathematics, including fractal studies, and his primary interest is in expanding creativity by joining art, science and mathematics.