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Michael Hawley, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab

Hawley received undergraduate degrees in music and computer science from Yale University and completed doctoral work under Marvin Minsky at MIT. His doctoral work, Structure Out Of Sound, fused these interests by implementing approaches for machine understanding of rich and complex soundscapes.

His research career has involved psychology and human-computer interfaces (at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill), computer music (at IRCAM in Paris, France) and pioneering work in digital cinema at Lucasfilm, Ltd (in San Rafael, CA), where he was a scientist in the Computer Research Division. Hawley's early work involved fundamental graphics interfaces to drive audio production, digital video editing and computer graphics technology. Working with Steve Jobs, Hawley was a principal engineer at NeXT, where he developed the world's first library of digital books. In 1998 his research team deployed technology for the American Everest Expedition.