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A. Michael Noll is a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He has published over ninety professional papers, has been granted six patents, and is the author of ten books on various aspects of telecommunications. | A. Michael Noll is a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He has published over ninety professional papers, has been granted six patents, and is the author of ten books on various aspects of telecommunications. | ||
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Before joining the Annenberg School for Communication, Prof. Noll had a varied career in basic research, telecommunication marketing, and science policy. He worked in the AT&T Consumer Products and Marketing Department where he performed technical evaluations and identified opportunities for new products and services. Prof. Noll spent nearly fifteen years performing basic research at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey in such areas as the effects of media on interpersonal communication, three-dimensional computer graphics, human-machine tactile communication, speech signal processing, and aesthetics. He is one of the earliest pioneers in the use of digital computers in the visual arts. In the early 1970s, Prof. Noll was on the staff of the President's Science Advisor at the White House and was involved with such issues as computer security and privacy, computer exports, scientific and technical information, and educational technology. | Before joining the Annenberg School for Communication, Prof. Noll had a varied career in basic research, telecommunication marketing, and science policy. He worked in the AT&T Consumer Products and Marketing Department where he performed technical evaluations and identified opportunities for new products and services. Prof. Noll spent nearly fifteen years performing basic research at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey in such areas as the effects of media on interpersonal communication, three-dimensional computer graphics, human-machine tactile communication, speech signal processing, and aesthetics. He is one of the earliest pioneers in the use of digital computers in the visual arts. In the early 1970s, Prof. Noll was on the staff of the President's Science Advisor at the White House and was involved with such issues as computer security and privacy, computer exports, scientific and technical information, and educational technology. | ||
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In 1965 Noll along with two other pioneers within the field of early computer art, [[Frieder Nake]] and [[Georg Nees]], organised exhibitions of computer graphics calling it ”Computer Art”. | In 1965 Noll along with two other pioneers within the field of early computer art, [[Frieder Nake]] and [[Georg Nees]], organised exhibitions of computer graphics calling it ”Computer Art”. | ||
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Revision as of 01:09, 4 November 2007
A. Michael Noll is a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He has published over ninety professional papers, has been granted six patents, and is the author of ten books on various aspects of telecommunications.
- Career
He is currently Director of Technology Research and a Senior Affiliated Research Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Tele-information at Columbia University's Business School. He is also currently affiliated with the Media Center at New York Law School, is a senior advisor to the Marconi Society and was an adjunct faculty member of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Prof. Noll is a regular contributor of opinion pieces to newspapers and trade magazines with over 50 published thus far. He is quoted frequently about telecommunications and the telecommunication industry by the media.
From 1992 to 1994, Prof. Noll was dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication for an interim period. During this time he formulated a broader vision of communication that resulted in a merger of USC academic units that study communication.
Before joining the Annenberg School for Communication, Prof. Noll had a varied career in basic research, telecommunication marketing, and science policy. He worked in the AT&T Consumer Products and Marketing Department where he performed technical evaluations and identified opportunities for new products and services. Prof. Noll spent nearly fifteen years performing basic research at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey in such areas as the effects of media on interpersonal communication, three-dimensional computer graphics, human-machine tactile communication, speech signal processing, and aesthetics. He is one of the earliest pioneers in the use of digital computers in the visual arts. In the early 1970s, Prof. Noll was on the staff of the President's Science Advisor at the White House and was involved with such issues as computer security and privacy, computer exports, scientific and technical information, and educational technology.
- Degrees and awards
Professor Noll has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, an M.E.E. from New York University, and a B.S.E.E. from Newark College of Engineering. Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical-engineering honor society, awarded him Honorable Mention as an Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer in 1970. In 1990, the Computer Graphics Pioneers of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) elected him a Pioneer in recognition of his early work in computer graphics.
In 1965 Noll along with two other pioneers within the field of early computer art, Frieder Nake and Georg Nees, organised exhibitions of computer graphics calling it ”Computer Art”.
