John Lewis (computer scientist)

For other educators of this name, see John Lewis (disambiguation).

John Alan Lewis (born 25 August 1963)[1] is an American computer science educator, and the owner of a Twitter account that is frequently mistaken for that of the British department store or the American politician and civil rights leader.

Computer science

Formerly of Villanova University and the New York Institute of Technology,[2] Lewis is an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech.[3] He is one of the coauthors of Java Software Solutions, an introductory text on Java programming.[4][5]

Social media

Popularly, Lewis is known for being the owner of the Twitter account '@johnlewis', to which hundreds of users from across the world mistakenly send tweets intended for the British department store John Lewis or the American politician and civil rights leader John Lewis.[6] He has been described as "the most patient man on the internet" by British social media users for redirecting with humour mistaken requests and messages sent to him, especially around the Christmas shopping period.[7][8][9] The department store sent Lewis a gift set as an acknowledgment and a thank you in 2016 for the inconvenience caused to him.[10] In 2018, Lewis was featured in a Twitter Christmas ad with the hashtag #NotARetailStore.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ "Lewis, John, 1963- - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)".
  2. ^ "Brief History of the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab".
  3. ^ "Adjunct Professor John Lewis". Virginia Tech. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  4. ^ Rogers, Michael P. (Fall 2001). "Review of Java Software Solutions, 2nd edition". Mathematics and Computer Education. 35 (3): 269–274. ProQuest 235923976.
  5. ^ Gal-Ezer, Judith; Vilner, Tamar; Zur, Ela (2009). "The professor on your PC: a virtual CS1 course". In Brézillon, Patrick; Russell, Ingrid; Labat, Jean-Marc (eds.). Proceedings of the 14th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2009, Paris, France, July 6-9, 2009. ACM. pp. 191–195. doi:10.1145/1562877.1562938.
  6. ^ "Why John Lewis loves talking shop".
  7. ^ Philipson, Alice. "John Lewis, the most patient man on the internet". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  8. ^ Sanusi, Victoria. "The Most Patient and Polite Man on the Internet Is Back at It Again". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  9. ^ White, Alan. "The Worst Time of Year for the Most Patient and Polite Man on the Internet Has Begun". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  10. ^ "Man called John Lewis sent Xmas advert penguin after being bombarded with tweets". Daily Mirror. 19 November 2014.
  11. ^ @johnlewis (19 November 2018). "You've been asking about the John Lewis advert, well here it is ..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  12. ^ "Meet @JohnLewis - the John Lewis that isn't the British retailer". BBC News. 19 November 2018.


Stub icon

This biographical article relating to a computer specialist in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.