Jon Titus works from Utah's Salt Lake Valley as a freelance technical writer, editor, and sometime designer. His prior experience includes editorial director at Test & Measurement World magazine, editorial director at EDN magazine, and vice president at Reed Business Information (Cahners Publishing Co.). Before moving into the periodical world, Jon helped start the Blacksburg Group, Inc. (Blacksburg, VA) at which he and his colleagues wrote and edited books about computers and electronics, and developed electronic hardware to help teach students about computers and electronics.

Jon is credited by many people as being the inventor of the first personal-computer kit, the Mark-8, which was featured as a construction project on the cover of Radio-Electronics magazine in July 1974.  The computer used an Intel 8008 microprocessor chip--the first 8-bit microprocessor--and the kit was meant for use by serious electronics hobbyists and experimenters.  Jon's original Mark-8 is now in the collection at the Smithsonian Institution.  In 2002 Jon received a George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Award from the American Computer Museum in Bozeman, MT for his development of the Mark-8 hobbyist computer kit. 

Titus has three college degrees, a BS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a PhD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.