David Auerbach is a fellow at the New America Foundation. He is currently writing a book on the impact of algorithmic and computational methods on public policy and social life, to be published by Pantheon. He writes the weekly Bitwise column on technology for Slate, for which he was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2014. Previously he was a software engineer at Google and Microsoft for 10 years, working primarily on server and systems infrastructure.
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