Daniel H. Wilson

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Daniel H. Wilson (b. 1978), full name Daniel Howard Wilson, is an American writer, television host 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.

Wilson is a contributing editor to Popular Mechanics magazine, called the "Resident Roboticist".

His first book, How to Survive A Robot Uprising, won a Rave Award from Wired magazine. The book was optioned by Paramount Pictures and a screenplay was written by Tom Lennon and Ben Garant and produced by Mike DeLuca.

Currently, Wilson is working on two children's books for Bloomsbury Publishing: 1) "Bro-Jitsu: The Martial Art of Sibling Rivalry" and 2) The Robonomicon. In August 2007, Bro-Jitsu was optioned by Nickelodeon Movies (a subset of Paramount Pictures) and Wilson hired to write the screenplay.

All of the above books are published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

Wilson is currently shooting a series that he will be hosting for the History Channel entitled "The Works", which is scheduled to debut during July 2008.

Wilson currently resides in Portland, Oregon.

[edit] Works

How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion, humor (New York: Bloomsbury, 2005)
Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived, humor (New York: Bloomsbury, 2007)
How To Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Aliens, Ninjas, and Zombies, humor (New York: Bloomsbury, 2008)