John Colagioia is a software engineer in Long Island, New York. He received his Masters of Science Degree in Computer Science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 from Polytechnic University in 1996, and is an adjunct professor of Computer Science

John is the author of Thue

Thue (programming language)

Thue is an esoteric programming language invented by John Colagioia in early 2000. It is a meta-language that can be used to define or recognize Type-0 languages from the Chomsky hierarchy. Because it is able to define languages of such complexity, it is also Turing-complete itself...

, *W, and RUBE II: Das Klickenklacker programming languages. He is also the co-designer of Wierd. He was a judge for the first, and judge and organizer of the second, Esoteric Awards.