Michael J. Freeman (born 1947) is an American inventor who works in trend analysis, advanced behavioral systems, programming of smart toys, cable television and robotics.

In 1969, Freeman received his bachelor's degree in Economics and Management from the City College of New York, an MBA in 1970 in Business Management and Economics from Bernard Baruch College, and received his doctorate in 1977 from the City University of New York,[which?]

Freeman was the keynote speaker at Harvard University on November 14, 2001, at the conference Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Future.

Core patent claims include telephone push-button tones as input to the home via branching.

Leachim demonstrated that voice branching could be done quickly enough to replicated understandable speech (i.e. verbal output).

This method combined phonemes, words, and sentences to form verbal responsive messages.

[22][23] He took the company public in 1990 with The Washington Post owning a 25% share, as well as Atari founder Nolan Bushnell.

[36] Freeman was one of the executive producers and licensor for a game show spin off of 2-XL named Pick Your Brain starring host Marc Summers.

[39] It was first made by CBS Toys under the brand name Child Guidance in 1984 as Electronic Talk 'n Play.

Kasey the Kinderbot toy was designed, developed, and sold by Fisher-Price, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mattel, using an interactive robot concept licensed from Michael J.

[45] In 1986, Freeman licensed a video game system to the View-Master Ideal Toy Company Inc.

This system encompassed digital interactivity considered advanced for that time period, and video games were produced by the Walt Disney Company and CTW (Children's Television Workshop).