Previously at MIT’s Media Laboratory, Michael Hawley is an artist and researcher working in the field of digital media. The MIT Media Lab (also known as the Media Lab) is a department within the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the founder of several research programs and projects including MIT's GO Expeditions program, the cofounder of the Things That Think research program, and founder of the nonprofit organization Friendly Planet. His work has been featured in National Geographic, Time, the New York Times, and several major television networks. Overview The NGS's historical mission is "to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge while promoting the conservation of the world's cultural historical and natural Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and His work at MIT has, in his own words, “sought to creatively stretch digital infrastructures, embedding intelligence into all sorts of artifacts and advancing the web of communications. ”

Contents 1 Biography 2 Notable works 3 Advisory and founding roles 4 References 5 External links

Biography

Hawley was born in November 1961 and grew up in New Providence, NJ, a suburb of New York City. He attended New Providence High School in 1979. As a teenager he had a job at Bell Labs (Murray Hill, New Jersey), working in the linguistics department. Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) is the Research organization Murray Hill is an unincorporated area within portions of both Berkeley Heights and New Providence, located in Union County in north-central He did his undergraduate work at Yale University in the areas of music and computer science; he went on to do his doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In the early 90's, while working at NeXT, he was key in the development of the world's first digital library, creating digital versions of Shakespeare and other classics. NeXT Computer Inc (later NeXT Software Inc) was an American Computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California that From 1993-2002, he was on the faculty at MIT as the Dreyfoos chair, and from there he became Director of Special Projects at MIT's Media Laboratory. His work and research have spanned the topics of psychology, computer music, digital video editing, human-computer interfaces, documentary photography, and more. Hawley is also an amateur pianist; he won the Van Cliburn Competition for Outstanding Amateurs in 2002. Notably, his competition pieces included his own piano arrangement of Leonard Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. West Side Story is a musical by Arthur Laurents (book Leonard Bernstein (music and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics He also accompanied cellist Yo-Yo Ma in performing the wedding march at the marriage of TV host and scientist Bill Nye and musician and author Blair Tindall at Richard Saul Wurman’s 2006 The Entertainment Gathering convention. This is an Anglicized version of the Chinese name "Ma Yo-yo" the family name is " Ma " William Sanford Nye (born November 27 1955 in Washington DC) also known as " Bill Nye the Science Guy," is an American Comedian,

Notable works

Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom (2003)

The world's largest book, a photo documentary of the kingdom of Bhutan. Bhutan A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom (ISBN 0-9742469-0-5 was created by scientist Michael Hawley, along with photographers Carolyn Bess Sandy The Kingdom of Bhutan (buːˈtɑːn is a Landlocked nation in South Asia.

Michael Hawley's Bhutan (2003) - http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/0305-ngs-bhutan.pdf

Article and photos for National Geographic.

Counter Intelligence (2001) – http://www.media.mit.edu/ci

Integrating high technology into the kitchen to foster a return to the “hearth” as the center of family life.

Toys of Tomorrow (2002:ended) - http://toys.media.mit.edu

Exploring and implementing technologies with several major toy companies to improve the way children learn and play.

Things That Think (2000) - http://ttt.media.mit.edu

Sponsor-driven effort to develop digitally augmented objects and environments.

Advisory and founding roles

• Board of Directors, Color Kinetics - http://www.colorkinetics.com
• Founder, Friendly Planet - http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/fp/bhutan
• Board of Directors, Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies - http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/jazz/jazz.shtml
• Advisory Board, TTI/Vanguard - http://www.ttivanguard.com
• Fellow/Trustee, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University - http://www.jonathanedwardscollege.com
• Founding US Editor, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - http://www.springerlink.com/content/1617-4917

References

• http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike
• http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/about/bio.html
• http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/about/cv.html

External links

• http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/fp/bhutan
• http://www.media.mit.edu/ci
• http://toys.media.mit.edu
• http://ttt.media.mit.edu
• http://www.colorkinetics.com
• http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/jazz/jazz.shtml
• http://www.ttivanguard.com
• http://www.jonathanedwardscollege.com
• http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/0305-ngs-Bhutan.pdf
• http://www.springerlink.com/content/1617-4917

Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions is a business unit within Philips Lighting's Luminaires group TTI/Vanguard is a Santa Monica-based company that puts on five conferences a year for senior business executives exploring upcoming trends in technology with a 2-5 year horizon Jonathan Edwards College is a Residential college at Yale University.

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