Wil McCarthy is a novelist, Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards (an aerospace research corporation), and the science columnist for the SciFi Channel[?] (example below). Hacking Matter is an expansion of an article that appeared in Wired Magazine in October 2001.
... most famous role is that of the cranky professor forced to stay immobile because of a broken leg in 1942's The Man Who Came to Dinner[?], which he had performed onstag ...