Dave Green is a

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, broadcaster and

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expert. He was Production Editor on ''

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'' magazine (who claimed he was an alien) and Reviews Editor for the brief early version of

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. Together with Danny O'Brien, he was jointly responsible for publishing the email newsletter ''

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'' and with whom he also co-wrote and -presented the

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''. He also published Snackspot, which called itself the "world's premier snack food discussion site", and was technology correspondent for the

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breakfast programme on BBC

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. He worked with Ben Moor on

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's Big Science series, and with

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and

Andy Riley Andy Riley (born 1970) is a British author, cartoonist, and Emmy-winning screenwriter for TV and film. Riley has written and drawn many best-selling cartoon books, including '' The Book of Bunny Suicides'' (2003) and its sequels, and ''Great Li ...

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. He was primary organiser of the UK grassroots technology conferences Extreme Computing, NotCon04, and Open Tech 2005. Dave graduated from

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in 1990, and was a postgraduate in Artificial Intelligence at the

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, where he co-wrote the

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"20 Things That Never Happen in Star Trek" with Graeme MacDonald. (updated 30 May 2002). He lives in

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, England.

References

External links

SnackspotExtreme ComputingNotCon04Open Tech 2005

20 Things That Never Happen in Star Trek
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