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Daniel Chudnov is a hacker/librarian and is Director of Scholarly Technology at George Washington University's Gelman Library in Washington, DC, USA. Previously, he has worked as a software developer at the Library of Congress, the Yale Center for Medical Informatics, MIT Libraries, and the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at the Yale University School of Medicine. He has contributed to several free software projects for libraries, and is a frequent speaker and author on technology and service innovation in libraries. From 2007-2011, he wrote a regular column for Computers in Libraries magazine, and he started the oss4lib weblog and listserv in 1999 to promote the use of free software in our community.

Daniel earned an MS at the School of Information in 1997 and studied Economics and Japanese as an undergraduate, both at the University of Michigan. In 2005, he received the LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award from the Library & Information Technology Association of the American Library Association.

He has been cancer-free since 1993.