A. Michael Noll is currently a professor at the Annenberg School for
Communication at USC. He teaches graduate courses in the fundamental science and technology of communication systems, and he studies the policy and social implications of communication technologies. He is a Senior Affiliated Research Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia Univerityâs Business School and has been an adjunct faculty member of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.
Before joining the Annenberg School in 1984, Professor. Noll had a varied
career in basic research, telecommunication marketing, and science policy,
both at AT&T and Bell Labs. He spent nearly fifteen years performing basic
research at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. His research included work
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 force-feedback systems and in
raster-scan displays. In the early 1970s, Prof. Noll was on the staff of the
Presidentâs Science Advisor at the White House.
His most recent book is "Highway of Dreams: A Critical View Along the
Information Superhighway."
http://www.citi.columbia.edu/amnoll/
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