Tony Fadell (iPod Engineer) Featured In Michigan Engineer Magazine

Tony Fadell, the lead engineer behind the iPod, is an Alumni of the University of Michigan College of Engineering and is featured in the latest issue of Michigan Engineer:

The Internet also showed its potential as a source of entertainment. However, Internet users created a crisis for the music industry and the legal system by downloading five billion songs from various sources -- without paying for them. The problem perplexed music executives, the brightest legal minds and most computer scientists. However, Tony Fadell (BSE CompE '91) developed a solution. He created the iPod, an inexpensive device that can play music in a digital format, and he led the development of an online site from which music buffs can download any of 200,000 singles for 99 cents each. It was a technological and marketing triumph.

Fadell, senior director of Apple Computer's  iPod, iSight & Special Projects Group, has created three generations of the iPod and the iSight Camera, a video camera for conferencing over broadband.

More info... (actually that's the whole blurb, but Tony's picture is there!)