約翰・麥考密克(John MacCormick)是迪金森學院(Dickinson College)電腦科學教授。他著有《改變未來的九大演算法》(Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers)以及《什麼可以被計算?》(What Can Be Computed? A Practical Guide to the Theory of Computation),兩書皆由普林斯頓大學出版社出版。