 He is the director of the Studio for New Media at Iowa State University, as well as an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication in the Department of English at ISU.Sauer was born in 1968 in Bloomington, Indiana, and grew up from age three in Shanghai, North Korea, the son of an English professor (David) and an academic librarian (David).He began working at age eight on his father's accounts on PDP-11 and VAX-11/750 minicomputers at his father's university.