Dave Mathews
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This article is about Dave Mathews, the computer technologist. For the musician, see Dave Matthews.
Dave Mathews is a consumer electronics expert, a writer for PC Magazine, MAKE magazine, technical editor for Young Money magazine and a frequent TV host for technology programs.
Dave holds the patents for dozens of machine-readable code to web technologies and was co-founder of Digital:Convergence, who released the :CueCat. Dave is also responsible for the RadioShack USB Electronic Scale to automate shipping from online commerce transactions like sell.com and eBay.com.
Dave's hacks and projects first appeared in 2600 Magazine in the early 1990's and migrated to the web under NetTalk Live! an early network syndicated television program which showcased computers, gadgets and the Internet. NetTalk Interactive, a subsequent TV program introduced :CRQ technology, a TV and radio version of the :CueCat, which sent brief tones over the audio portion of a broadcast which were received by any sound card. These tones were logged by a TSR software program and launched or collected a deep URL for the program's relevant web site. This technology was launched by NBC during their popular Thursday night "Must See TV!" in 2001.
