Paul Freiberger is an award-winning writer who has been widely praised. Paul co-authored the best-selling Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer (McGraw-Hill), translated into many languages and later made into the Hollywood movie Pirates of Silicon Valley. He is a former columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. He has worked as a teacher, a night porter, a newspaper reporter, a technology project manager, a chef, a communications executive, and an entrepreneur. He earned a B.A. in history at the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Masters in Italian from Middlebury College. Michael Swaine has been writing about technology full-time since he helped launch Info World in 1981. He co-wrote the seminal history of the personal computer, Fire in the Valley, which was the basis of the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley. He was editor-in-chief of Dr. Dobb's Journal and has been a columnist and editor for a large number of other magazines. He is the co-author for the Encyclopedia Britannica's entry on Computer History and has written four different columns for MacUser. He currently edits for Pragmatic Programmers and publishes a programming magazine called PragPub.