Karen A. Frenkel

Karen A. Frenkel is an award-winning technology and science journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. Frenkel is the producer of the documentary Family Treasures Lost and Found, a companion to this memoir (www.familytreasuresfilm.com). She is co-author with Isaac Asimov of Robots: Machines in Man’s Image. Her previous award-winning documentaries appeared on public television: Minerva’s Machine: Women and Computing, winner of the 1997 Exceptional Media Merit Award (EMMA) for Best Television Documentary (Small Market), and Net.LEARNING, winner of the National Education Reporting First Prize Television Documentary Feature. Her many articles have appeared in magazines, newspapers, and websites, including The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Scientific American, MIT Technology Review, Discover, Science Magazine, Essence, U.S. News & World Report, FastCompany.com, The Village Voice, and Communications of the ACM. For more information please visit www.karenafrenkel.com.