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 and serves on the IEEE "Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange" project. He maintains Gnosis Utilities, a widely used public domain Python package. Wikipedia
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