Christopher Mims

Christopher Mims is a technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, which he joined in 2014.

Early life
Mims received a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University in 2001.

Career
Mims taught English in Japan for six months and worked in a neuroscience lab. He was a science and technology correspondent and editor for Quartz, and also worked as an editor at Scientific American, Technology Review, Smithsonian and Grist. Mims was also a producer at Small Mammal, where he helped director John Pavlus produce science videos for Slate, Popular Science, and Nature.

Mims covered the converging crises of the 21st century for Grist.

Mims was a contributing editor at MIT Technology Review between 2011 and 2012.

On 14 July 2014, Mims, writing in The Wall Street Journal, said the password "is finally dying" and predicted their replacement by device-based authentication, however, purposefully revealing his Twitter password resulted in being forced to change his cellphone number.

Personal life
In January 2015, Taylor Lorenz announced her engagement to Mims.