MIT Professor Michael Hawley

cyranoVR writes "Today's CBS This Morning ran an interesting profile on MIT Professor Michael Hawley. Aside from recently publishing a super-jumbo-sized book about the Kingdom of Bhutan, he has invented (among other things) an interactive kitchen counter, designed a heart monitor embedded in jewelry, contributed to the MIT Toys of Tomorrow project and has written several classical compositions for piano. What really struck me was Hawley's observation that 'today's computers aren't musical enough.' For him, there is 'no difference between an ivory keyboard and a QWERTY keyboard.' I think it's a good thing that the mainstream media is starting to show how 'computer nerds' (as the correspondent identified Hawley) can be rich individuals with much more to their lives than hardware upgrades, programming languages and pocket protectors."

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Did they retire Weizenmbaum or what ?

[frost22]

Did they retire Weizenmbaum or what ? I always assumed they'd only have room for one of these certified kook types.

Have youy looked at that gentleman's publication list on his web site ?

- travels to Bhutan ???
- photo mosaics ??
- essays in "technology review" ??

Apparently the good professor never had scientific research published of which he is proud enough to mention it on his home page.

Oh well. MIT.