MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
"As We May Think" --
A Celebration of Vannevar Bush's 1945 Vision,
An Examination of What Has Been Accomplished,
and What Remains to Be Done
Thursday, October 12 - Friday, October 13, 1995
Biography
Douglas N. Adams
Douglas N. Adams was born in Cambridge in 1952. He was educated at
Brentwood School, Essex and St. John's College, Cambridge where he read
English. After graduation he spent several years contributing material to
radio and television shows as well as writing, performing and sometimes
directing stage revues in London, Cambridge and on the Edinburgh Fringe.
He has also worked at various times as a hospital porter, barn builder,
chicken shed cleaner, bodyguard, radio producer and script editor of Doctor
Who.
He originally created The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a radio series for the BBC, and then wrote it again as a novel. He has written four more novels in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitch-Hiker trilogy - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for all the Fish and Mostly Harmless.
Douglas has also written two Dirk Gently books, Dirk Gently's Holistic
Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. With John Lloyd
he co-wrote The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff and with
zoologist Mark Carwardine he has written the wildlife travelogue Last
Chance to See.
He lives in London with his wife, daughter and a large collection of left-handed guitars and baby-sitters.
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