David Pogue

Host, NOVA ScienceNow and Founder & Columnist, Yahoo! Tech,

David Pogue, the host of the PBS show NOVA ScienceNow and a columnist for Yahoo! Tech, is one of the preeminent voices on cutting-edge consumer technology. With over three million books in print, Mr. Pogue is one of the world’s best-selling “how-to” authors. He has written or co-written seven books in the For Dummies series and in 1999 launched his own line of computer books, the Missing Manual series, which now includes 120 titles. For 13 years Mr. Pogue was the weekly personal technology columnist for The New York Times; in the fall of 2013 he made the move to Yahoo, where he founded Yahoo Tech as a destination for non-techies. Mr. Pogue graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1985 with distinction in music, then spent 10 years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York. He has won two Emmys, a Loeb Award for journalism, and an honorary doctorate in music.