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By the next semester, Toner-Rodgers pitched the idea to Autor, a leading labor economist and self-described computer geek who for years had been mulling how AI might shape employment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

A computer geek probably could have figured out a faster way to get to our first communication with one another on Facebook's Messenger, but I just went the old-school route.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2022

It epitomized the ultimate kluge, a term invented years ago by a computer geek, writing about computer stuff, and it meant using junk to craft a workable if ugly solution to a problem.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2021

“As far as we knew, he was kind of a computer geek that worked at home,” Steve Schmoldt, a neighbor, told the Nashville newspaper, the Tennessean.

From Washington Times • Dec. 27, 2020

On my side I had Tyson, Corey Bailer the computer geek, Raj Mandali the calculus whiz, and a half dozen other kids who always got harassed by Sloan and his gang.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan




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