Michael Hawley

MIT MediaLab professor. Died 2020.

Director of EG conference created by Richard Saul Wurman.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hawley

I went to high school with him. He was a year ahead but the geek squad tended to cross years a bit.

Plays a mean Peanuts theme song.

Was actually on the Yale football team as placekicker until he decided it was eating into his piano practice time...

There was a nice chapter about him in Programmers At Work.

Created huge book Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom

Wow, I didn't know he won the Van Cliburn competition in 2002.