https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/michael-hawley-dead.html
"Mr. Hawley began his career as a video game programmer at Lucasfilm,
the company created by the “Star Wars” director George Lucas. He spent
his last 15 years curating the Entertainment Gathering, or EG, a
conference dedicated to new ideas.
In between, he worked at NeXT, the influential computer company founded
by Steve Jobs after he left Apple in the mid-1980s, and spent nine years
as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, a
seminal effort to push science and technology into art and other
disciplines. He was known as a scholar whose ideas, skills and
friendships spanned an unusually wide range of fields, from mountain
climbing to watchmaking.
Mr. Hawley lived with both Mr. Jobs and the artificial intelligence
pioneer Marvin Minsky, published the world’s largest book, won first
prize in an international competition of amateur pianists, played
alongside the cellist Yo-Yo Ma at the wedding of the celebrity scientist
Bill Nye, joined one of the first scientific expeditions to Mount
Everest, and wrote commencement speeches for both Mr. Jobs and the
Google co-founder Larry Page."
Via Glenn S. Tenney and Dave Farber.
RIP,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
