Previously at MIT’s Media Laboratory, Michael Hawley is an artist and researcher working in the field of digital media. He is the founder of several research programs and projects including MIT's GO Expeditions program, the cofounder of the Things That Think research program, and founder of the nonprofit organization Friendly Planet. His work has been featured in National Geographic, Time, the New York Times, and several major television networks...
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Previously at MIT’s Media Laboratory, Michael Hawley is an artist and researcher working in the field of digital media. He is the founder of several research programs and projects including MIT's GO Expeditions program, the cofounder of the Things That Think research program, and founder of the nonprofit organization Friendly Planet. His work has been featured in National Geographic, Time, the New York Times, and several major television networks. His work at MIT has, in his own words, “sought to creatively stretch digital infrastructures, embedding intelligence into all sorts of artifacts and advancing the web of communications.”
Hawley was born in November 1961 and grew up in New Providence, NJ, a suburb of New York City. He attended New Providence High School in 1979. As a teenager he had a job at Bell Labs (Murray Hill, New Jersey), working in the linguistics department. He did his undergraduate work at Yale University in the areas of music and computer science; he went on to do...
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