David N. Blank-Edelman is the Director of Technology at the Northeastern University College of Computer Science. He has spent the last 14 years of his life as a system/network administrator in large multi-platform environments, including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the MIT Media Laboratory. He has served as Senior Technical Editor for The Perl Journal and has written many magazine articles on world music. In his spare time, he studies mbira, a traditional Shona instrument from Zimbabwe.