Alexander Galloway

Alexander R. Galloway is an author, programmer and Associate Professor at the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. He is a founding member of the software collective RSG (the Radical Software Group) and creator of the data surveillance engine Carnivore, a networked surveillance tool based on the notorious FBI software of the same name. The New York Times recently described his work as "conceptually sharp, visually compelling and completely attuned to the political moment." Galloway is the author of Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (MIT, 2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Minnesota, 2006), and a new book coauthored with Eugene Thacker called The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Minnesota, 2007).