Jude Milhon

Jew Milhon (* 1939 † 19 July 2003), better known by her pseudonym St. Jew, was a hacker and writer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

They coined the term Cypher Punk and was a founding member of the Cypher Punks. Another term whose coinage in 1962 in Cleveland attributed to her, is hippie. In 1976 she began programming and wrote software for Horn and Hardart Company. Among the projects in which she collaborated, was the Berkeley community Memory and the Operating System (see web link). She was a member of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and author of several books, as well as managing editor of the magazine Mondo 2000, and regular contributor to the famous blogs Boing Boing. Milhon died of cancer.

Works (selection)

• The Cyberpunk Handbook. ( The real Cyberpunk Fakebook ). Random House, New York, NY, inter alia, 1995, ISBN 0-679-76230-2.
• How to Mutate and Take Over the World. Ballantine Books, New York, NY 1996, ISBN 0-345-39216-7.