Daniel H. Wilson

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Daniel H. Wilson (b. 1978) is an American writer and robotics engineer.

Born March 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he earned his B.S. in computer science at the University of Tulsa. He completed an M.S. in robotics, another M.S. in Machine Learning, and his Ph.D. in robotics in 2005 at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research, the Xerox PARC, Northrop Grumman, and Intel Research Seattle. In January of 2006 he began as a columnist for Popular Mechanics magazine.

His first book, How to Survive A Robot Uprising, won a Rave Award from Wired magazine. His next book, due April of 2007, is titled Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived, and it will look back at high-tech products from the past that never came to be. Wilson is currently working on the sequel to Robot Uprising, titled "How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies." All of the above books are published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

Wilson also started a company, dotBot inc.

He currently resides in Portland, Oregon.