

In 1997, Laporte was awarded a Northern California Emmy for his role as Dev Null, a motion capture character on the MSNBC show The Site. Dvorak), and Laporte on Computers on KGO Radio and KSFO in San Francisco. Laporte has worked on technology-related broadcasting projects, including Dvorak on Computers in January 1991 (co-hosted with technology writer John C. By 1984 he owned a Macintosh and wrote a software review for Byte magazine. He began his association with computers with his first home computer, an Atari 400. He studied Chinese history at Yale University before dropping out in his junior year to pursue a career in radio broadcasting, where his early on-air names were Dave Allen and Dan Hayes. Laporte was born in New York City, the son of geologist Leo F.
