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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."
Aside from recently publishing a super-jumbo-sized book... he... has written several classical compositions for piano.
Umm.... not to get too technical or anything, but if he is currently alive he can not possibly have written a classical composition. He may have composed a piece in a classical style, but there is a significant difference between the two. Vanessa Carlton could be said to have composed a work in a classical style, but very few would call it a classical composition (and they who do would be wrong).