When 19-year-old Matthew Tang decided to revamp his home computer, he committed an act that has become the badge of honor in the free software movement: he reformatted the disk, wiping it clean of Microsoft Windows. Tang, a freshman student majoring computer science at the Metropolitan State College of Denver, installed Red Hat Linux 6.1, the GNOME desktop and StarOffice, which had recently been acquired by Sun Microsystems as an open source project. He loaded browsers from Netscape and Mozilla.org, and the Pine email program, which was created by the University of Washington.
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Bart Eisenberg's articles on the trends and technologies of the American computer industry have appeared in Gijutsu-Hyoron publications since the late 1980s. He has covered and consulted for both startups and the major corporations that make up the Silicon Valley. A native of Los Angeles and a self-confessed gadget freak, he lives with his wife Susan in Marin County, north of San Francisco. When not there, he can sometimes be found hiking with a GPS in the Sierra, traveling in India, driving his Toyota subcompact down the California coast, or on the streets of New York and Tokyo.
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1980年代後半より，『Software Design』や『Web Site Expert』などの雑誌に，アメリカのコンピュータ業界のトレンドと技術に関するレポートを執筆しています。シリコンバレーで，スタートアップ企業から大企業まで幅広い分野でコンサルタントを務めました。
ロサンゼルス生まれで，自称ガジェットフリークです．現在，妻のSusanとともに，サンフランシスコ北部のMarin County在住。また，SierraのGPSを携えてハイキングしたり，インドを旅したり，カリフォルニア海岸をドライブしたり，NYや東京の街中を歩いたりしています。