Sharon Weinberger

Sharon Weinberger will cover the relationship between the Pentagon and Silicon Valley. She is a writer and editor who focuses on the intersection of science, technology and national security. Her most recent book, published by Knopf, is “The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World.” She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, MIT’s Knight Science Journalism program, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, WIRED magazine, Nature, BBC, Discover, and Slate, among other publications.