Click to zoom Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Senior Editor
FORTUNE

Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been covering science and technology — first for TIME Magazine and now for FORTUNE — since he reported a TIME cover story on computer "Whiz Kids" in 1982. He became a TIME staff writer in 1983, a senior editor in 1994 and an assistant managing editor in 1997. He started two new sections in the magazine — Computers (1982) and Technology (1987) — and in 1994 helped launch Time Online (now Time.com), America's first interactive weekly newsmagazine.

In September 2007 he joined FORTUNE as a senior editor, having served as executive editor of Business 2.0 for the last eight months of that magazine's brief life as a Time Inc. publication.

As a TIME writer, Elmer-DeWitt produced nearly 500 news and feature stories on subjects ranging from in-vitro fertilization to computer sex. As the magazine's science editor, he produced more than 150 cover stories, including the issue that named AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho Time's 1996 "Man of the Year" and Albert Einstein "Person of the Century." He also ran TIME-sponsored conferences on genetics (2003) and obesity (2004) and global health (2005).

While at Business 2.0, he started a blog called Apple 2 that quickly became the most-visited site in the Business 2.0 network, drawing as many as 1.3 million page views a month. His Apple 2.0 columns are now published daily as part of the newly redesigned Fortune.com.

Elmer-DeWitt has made dozens of radio and television appearances and produced several 10-minute television features for PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and CNN & Time (formerly CNN Impact).

Born in Boston and raised in Lexington, Mass., he was graduated summa cum laude in English from Oberlin College and studied at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and at the University of California at Berkeley.