Friends
Soup	Mike's band in Atlanta.
Kelly Novak	A friend from High School who moved to Atlanta while Mike was at Georgia Tech.
Family
Mike's Dad
Mike's Brother
Colleagues
Jan VanSanten	Jan is Director of CSLU.  He posted this notice on Mike's OGI web site the day after he passed away.
Jan VanSanten	Jan wrote this Foreward to Text to Speech Synthesis: New Paradigms and Advances, a new book on TTS by Shrikanth Narayanan and Abeer Alwan, published in 2004.  It is a summary of Mike's contribution to Text to Speech technology.  (pdf)
Piero Cosi	An Italian speech researcher who collaborated with Mike on the creation of an Italian voice for Festival.
Vincent Pagel	A post-doctorate fellow from Belgium who was working with Mike at OGI at the time of his death.
Alan Black	A speech synthesis researcher from the University of Edinburgh with whom Mike collaborated on the Festival Text to Speech system.
Obituaries
The Oregonian	The Portland newspaper obituary published March 18, 2001 (pdf)
The Journal Sentinel-paid	The purchased death notice that appeared in the Milwaukee Jounal-Sentinel on Sunday, March 25. (pdf)
The Journal Sentinel-free	A Journal-Sentinel obituary published March 27 that briefly describes Mike's work and life. (pdf)
IEEE Signal Processing Committee	The obituary published on the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) web site, a professional group in which Mike was active.
	A bookshelf at OGI dedicated to Mike shortly after he passed.

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