Dave Nocera

Dave Nocera spent thirty-four years in high-end computing before retiring to write fiction. He pioneered artificial intelligence at AT&T in the 1980s — among the first in the company to program expert systems in LISP and Prolog — and went on to serve as Chief Infrastructure Architect for AT&T's Consumer Call Centers. He holds five U.S. patents and has licensed software to Fortune 500 companies. As Bank of America's top-tier network debugger, he learned that catastrophic failures come from systems doing exactly what they were designed to do in unanticipated contexts.

He is also a second-generation beekeeper. One afternoon, watching a bee emerge from its cell, he observed nursery bees teaching the newborn her identity through chemical signals — consciousness emerging from pure instinct and social learning. That observation became the foundation for his first novel.

Self-taught in quantum mechanics and drawing on fifty years of meditation practice, he brings both technical credibility and deep curiosity about consciousness to his writing. He retired at seventy to pursue fiction with the same disciplined approach he had used to master guitar and quantum mechanics.

He is the author of The Supercolony Wars: An Insect Epic and the forthcoming Timeline 27.