About
Bill Gourgey is a Popular Science contributor and unofficial digital archeologist who enjoys excavating PopSci’s vast archives to update noteworthy stories (yes, merry-go-rounds are noteworthy).
Experience
Bill is an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins. He also teaches rising high school seniors at MIT’s Office of Engineering Outreach. For more than two decades (Accenture), he designed and developed software for the communications, utilities, finance, and tech industries. He’s held advisory positions at several startups and nonprofits (SMRxT, Tsymmetry, Infinia ML, JBWS). Bill’s stories tend to explore technology’s dual-edged promise such as the limits of telemedicine’s expanding role, AI’s underutilized potential to elevate our climate game, and how slow-moving airships could accelerate disaster relief.
Bill likes to talk tech nearly as much as he likes to write about it. He’s served as moderator, speaker, and panelist at venues like the National Association of Science Writers 2021 Conference, Publishers Weekly 2017 BookExpo, and Digital Hollywood (NY 2011). He’s also Managing Editor of Delmarva Review, a literary journal. In his spare time (lol), he sketches unworldly satellite cartoons.
Education
Bill is a graduate of Cornell University with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Materials Science. He has a masters degree in Science Writing from Johns Hopkins University. Bill feels fortunate to be living in a time when online education is no more than a mouse click away: Whenever his coding gets too rusty, he dives back into CE courses like those offered at MIT (Big Data, IoT, Cybersecurity).
