A. Michael Noll

A. Michael Noll (born 1939, Newark, New Jersey) is an American engineer, and professor emeritus at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.

Before joining the Annenberg School for Communication, Noll had a varied career in basic research, telecommunication marketing, and science policy.

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 and animation, human-machine tactile communication, speech signal processing, cepstrum pitch determination,[2][3] and aesthetics.

Noll used a digital computer to create artistic patterns and formalized the use of random and algorithmic processes in the creation of visual arts.

During April 1965, the Howard Wise Gallery in New York City exhibited Noll's computer art[5] along with random-dot patterns by Bela Julesz.

[9] His experiment comparing a computer-generated pattern with a painting by Mondrian was an early implementation of the Turing Test and an example of the use of digital computers in investigations of aesthetics.

Noll has published over ninety professional papers, has been granted six patents, and is the author of ten books on various aspects of telecommunications, communications, and Bell Telephone Laboratories.