Peter Coffee

Peter Coffee is Technology Editor of eWEEK, Ziff Davis Media's national news magazine of enterprise infrastructure. He has twenty years' experience in evaluating information technologies and practices as a developer, consultant, educator, and internationally published author and industry analyst.

Coffee writes product reviews, technical analyses, and his weekly "Epicenters" column on disruptive forces in IT tools and practices; he has appeared on CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, and PBS newscasts addressing Internet security, the Microsoft antitrust case, wireless telecom policies, and other e-business issues. He chaired the four-day Web Security Summit conference in Boston during the summer of 2000 and has been a keynote speaker or moderator at technical conferences throughout the United States and in England. His most recent book is Peter Coffee Teaches PCs, published in 1998 by Que; he previously authored Que's ZD Press tutorial, "How to Program Java." He played a lead role in developing eWEEK Labs' 2001 series of special reports titled "Five Steps to Enterprise Security." His current eWEEK beats include development tools and business intelligence products.

Before joining eWEEK (then called PC Week) full time in 1989, Coffee held technical and management positions at Exxon and The Aerospace Corporation, dealing with chemical facility project control, Arctic project development, strategic defense analysis, end-user computing planning and support, and artificial intelligence applications research. He has been one of eWEEK's lead analysts throughout the life cycles of technologies, including x86 and RISC microprocessors; Windows, OS/2, and Mac OS; object technologies, including Smalltalk, C++, and Java; and security technologies including strong encryption. He holds an engineering degree from MIT and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University and has taught classes in the Department of Computer Science at UCLA and at Pepperdine's Graziadio School of Business and Management and the Chapman College School of Business. His weekly newsletter, Peter Coffee's Enterprise IT Advantage, and his other writings are available at www.eweek.com/petercoffee.