Mike Loukides is Vice President of Emerging Tech Content at O'Reilly Media, Inc. He's particularly interested in programming languages, Unix and what passes for Unix these days, and system and network administration. Mike is the author of System Performance Tuning and a coauthor of Unix Power Tools. Most recently, he's been writing about data and artificial intelligence, ethics and the future of programming. He's also a pianist, a ham radio operator and a lover of birds.