Robert X. Cringely

Mark Stephens, who wrote under the pen name Robert X. Cringely, was a technology journalist best known for his widely republished column in InfoWorld. He wrote the book Accidental Empires about the rise of the personal computer industry and presented the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds in 1996. He later hosted NerdTV for PBS and, from 2009, published his own site, I, Cringely. His family announced his death in an obituary, and the funeral home record gives his death as October 3 at the age of 73; no cause of death was given.