Tony Northrup

Tony Northrup (born January 3, 1974) is an American author, photographer, and video instructor.[1][2][3] Northrup was born in Binghamton, New York, raised in Pflugerville, Texas, and currently resides in Waterford, Connecticut with his wife Chelsea.

In June 2000, Northrup won the Sexiest Geek Alive contest.[4][5][6][7][8] Following the contest he made appearances on several TV shows, including Good Morning America,[9] the Montel Williams Show,[10] and To Tell The Truth.[11] Northrup has spoken at conferences and hosted events[12] and webcasts.[13][14] Northrup is regularly cited as a technology expert.[15][16][17] Northrup created a series of videos[18] and a book showing how to use technology to create custom solutions to common problems.[19]

Books

Northrup has published 32 how-to books covering Windows systems administration, software development, and photography for Microsoft Press, O'Reilly, SAMS Publishing, and Mason Press. Among the books he has authored and co-authored are several Resource Kits, an MCDST book that won the Distinguished Award from the Puget Sound Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication,[20] and several Microsoft Press Training Kits that were featured on Leonard and Sheldon's bookshelf on The Big Bang Theory TV show.[21][22]

References

  1. ↑ "Microsoft Windows 7 Tutorial DVD - Video Training". Infinite Skills.
  2. ↑ "MTA Web Development Fundamentals Course". LearnKey.
  3. ↑ "MTA .NET Fundamentals Course". LearnKey.
  4. ↑ "The Geek Elite". Chicago Tribune. June 28, 2000.
  5. ↑ Gillespie, Spike (March 16, 2000). "'Sexiest Geek' won't let power go to head". Dallas Morning News.
  6. ↑ Bombardieri, Marcella (June 25, 2000). "They call him the sexiest geek alive". Toronto Star.
  7. ↑ Bombardieri, Marcella (June 7, 2000). "THE ELITE GEEK CONTEST WINNER FINDS NEWFOUND PRIDE AND HIP CACHET". Boston Globe.
  8. ↑ "Who wants to be the sexiest geek alive?". Salon. March 7, 2000.
  9. ↑ People Magazine. October 14, 1998 http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,617489,00.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ↑ "TV Guide". TV Guide.
  11. ↑ "2000-02 Episode Guide "To Tell The Truth"".
  12. ↑ Hartigan, Patti (March 31, 2000). "CALLING ALL GEEKS: TIME TO PARTY!". Boston Globe.
  13. ↑ "Expert Zone Support WebCast - Level 200: How to use GPS on a Tablet PC". Microsoft.
  14. ↑ "Expert Zone Support WebCast: Wireless Home Networking and Windows XP Service Pack 2". Microsoft.
  15. ↑ Romano, Jay (March 12, 2006). "YOUR HOME; Wireless Web Access For Every Tenant". New York Times.
  16. ↑ "Choppy video frustrates wireless user". The Post and Courier. June 23, 2008.
  17. ↑ "RPC/DCOM-Wurm W32.Blaster mutiert". Heise Security.
  18. ↑ "Channel 9 Coding4Fun". MSDN.
  19. ↑ "Everyday Hackers". Boston Globe. April 19, 2004.
  20. ↑ "Projects". ConText Editorial Services.
  21. ↑ Musgrave, Devon. "The Big Bang Theory: Leonard and the books". Microsoft Press Blog.
  22. ↑ Musgrave, Devon. "The Big Bang Theory, Season 3". Microsoft Press Blogs.
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