Michael Glenn Williams (born October 23, 1957, in Lancaster, California) is an American composer, pianist and technologist.
He attended CSU Northridge as a dual major in composition and piano performance where he studied with Aurelio de la Vega, Daniel Kessner, Frank Campo, and Francoise Regnat.
He did graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music as a composition major, where he taught undergraduate electronic music, and worked with Samuel Adler, Robert Morris, Warren Benson, pianist Rebecca Penneys, and briefly with Joseph Schwantner and David Burge.
Williams also regularly releases performances on his Facebook page and YouTube channel "Michael's Piano Bar."
Works for orchestra include Video Games Concerto, New West Overture, Rising Stars Overture, Oceanic Overture, American Prairie Sketches, Tarantella for piano and orchestra, composed for pianist Sean Chen; Princess Concerto for piano, narrator and orchestra; and The Gates of Hell a series of tone poems based on the Rodin sculptures.
Williams is co-author of IETF RFC 5412 "Lightweight Access Point Protocol", RFC 6520 "Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Heartbeat Extension" and Draft Mobile DTLS Before the iPhone was released, Williams proposed "the computer phone" to the Nokia Technology Board.