Dr. Keith Devlin is Executive Director of Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information and a Consulting Professor of Mathematics at Stanford. He is a co-founder of Stanford's Media X network—a campus-wide research network focused on the design and use of interactive technologies—and its Executive Director. He is the author of twenty-four books, one interactive book on CD-ROM and over seventy published research articles. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a World Economic Forum Fellow. He has received numerous awards. (continues)

Devlin has a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from King's College London (1968) and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Bristol (1971).

His current research work is centered around the task of applying mathematical techniques to issues of language and information and the design of information systems.

He is a regular contributor to NPR's popular magazine program Weekend Edition (where he is known as "the Math Guy") and a frequent contributor to various other local and national radio programs, both in the USA and Britain, commenting on advances in mathematics and computing. He writes a monthly column, "Devlin's Angle," on the web journal MAA Online.

Book awards

* Life by the Numbers, the companion to the six-part PBS television series of the same name, for which he was an advisor, published by John Wiley in 1998, was nominated for the BABRA Award.

* Logic and Information, published by Cambridge University Press in 1991, won the American Association of Publishers award as "Most Outstanding Book in Computer Science and Data Processing of 1991".

* The Math Gene and The Language of Mathematics won the Italian Peano Prize for 2003.