Benoit Michel Explained

Benoit Michel (born 1950) is a Belgian engineer.^[1] He is the author or co-author of more than 20 technical books on microcomputing, cinema, and stereoscopy.

Biography

Michel received his degree in civil engineering from Université de Liège, Belgium, 1976 .^[2]

Professional history

Michel co-founded “Neurones”, one of the first 3D cartoon studios in Europe in 1989. After that, he switched to R&D project management in telecommunications, human-machine interaction, digital cinema, and multimedia and is now at the University of Louvain, successively managing the SIMILAR^[3] network of excellence on multimodal interfaces, the EDCINE^[4] project on enhanced digital cinema, the 3D Media research project focusing on stereoscopic and 3D imaging. He is now working on a medical imaging project called "InVivo/IGT"^[5] improving the way 3D images are driving proton therapy machines to cure cancer.

He is a member of the editorial board of ERCIM News,^[6] and is working as a consultant for the European Commission, the TWIST cluster^[7] of Walloon companies and various private companies and he is the editor of the free “StereoscopyNews” newsletter.^[8] He is co-founder of The European Spaceward Association,^[9] a non-profit association with a goal to preserve and improve life on earth by going into space.

Bibliography

• Programmes internes du Commodore PET/CBM (ed B.C.M.)^[10]
• Le livre du VIC (ed B.C.M.)^[11]
• Le livre du 64 (ed B.C.M.)^[12]
• Le livre de l'AmigaBasic (ed P.S.I.)^[13]
• PC, XT, AT: Maintenance et améliorations (ed B.C.M.)^[14]
• Le livre du Pick (ed B.C.M.)^[15]
• Clefs pour Amiga (ed P.S.I.)^[16]
• Personnalisez votre MS-DOS (ed B.C.M.)^[17]
• Programmation Windows en Visual BASIC (ed. Dunod Tech, 1992)^[18]
• Digital cinema : Revolution or Evolution (in 'Film Journal International', Aug 2001)^[19]
• Similar Dreams 'Multimodal interfaces in our future life' (chapter 8 only) (ed. PUL, 2005)^[20]
• Beyond DCI: The integration of object oriented 3D sound into the Digital Cinema (conference paper presented at NEM Summit 2008)^[21]
• 3DTV Le futur de la télévision stéréoscopique, avec J-F. Nivart, R. Roberts et V. Breuls de Tiecken, ed. TWIST^[22]
• La Stéréoscopie Numérique (ed Eyrolles, 2011,)^[23]
• La Voiture Électrique (ed Now Future, 2018,)^[24]
• The electric car here and now (ed Now Future, 2019,)^[25]

Notes and References

1. http://www.uclouvain.be/benoit.michel UCL University Bio
2. http://www.eyrolles.com/Accueil/Auteur/benoit-michel-97202 Eyrolles Author Bio
3. http://www.isca-speech.org/archive_open/specom_04/spc4_627.pdf SIMILAR
4. http://www.edcine.org/ EDCINE
5. http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be/view-project.php?name=In%20ViVo%20IGT InVivo/IGT Project
6. http://www.ercim.eu/news ERCIM News
7. http://twist-cluster.com/cms/en TWIST cluster
8. http://www.stereoscopynews.com StereoscopyNews
9. http://eurospaceward.org/ European Spaceward Association
10. Book: Michel, Benoit. Programmes internes du Commodore PET/CBM. B.C.M.. Liège, Belgium.
11. Book: Benoit, Michel. Le livre du VIC. B.C.M.. Liège, Belgium. 978-2-87111-000-2.
12. Book: Benoit, Michel. Le livre du 64. B.C.M.. Liège, Belgium. 978-2-87111-001-9.
13. Book: Benoit, Michel. Le livre de l'AmigaBasic. P.S.I.. Paris, France. 978-2-86595-501-5.
14. Book: Benoit, Michel. PC, XT, AT: Maintenance et améliorations. B.C.M.. Liège, Belgium. 287111014X. Benoit . M..
15. Book: Benoit, Michel. Le livre du Pick. B.C.M.. Liège, Belgium. 978-2-87111-013-2. Martin . D..
16. Book: Benoit, Michel. Clefs pour Amiga. P.S.I.. Paris, France. 978-2-86595-418-6. Labaye . V. . Herzet . G..
17. Book: Benoit, Michel. Personnalisez votre MS-DOS. B.C.M.. Liège, Belgium. 978-2-87111-020-0. Surny . A.L..
18. Book: Benoit, Michel. Programmation Windows en Visual BASIC. Dunod Tech. Paris, France.
19. https://archive.today/20120707182027/http://business.highbeam.com/3096/article-1G1-77756228/revolution-evolution Digital cinema : Revolution or Evolution
20. Book: Benoit, Michel . Similar Dreams. 2005. Presse Universitaires de Louvain. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. 978-2-930344-91-1. Daussogne . S. . Macq . B.. 143. "Chapter 8: SIMILAR work ’04".
21. Beyond DCI: The integration of object oriented 3D sound into the Digital Cinema http://www.sigma-orionis.com/nem-summit.eu/Presentations/Day3/SessionsB/B7/Beyond_DCI.pdf
22. http://www.twist-cluster.com/cms/images/Dossiers/3dtv-ep2.pdf 3DTV Le futur de la télévision stéréoscopique
23. Book: Benoit, Michel. La Stéréoscopie Numérique. November 2011. Eyrolles. Paris, France. 978-2-212-12988-5. 291.
24. Book: Benoit, Michel. La Voiture Électrique. September 2018. Now Future. Liège, Belgique. 978-2-930940-15-1. 240.
25. Book: Benoit, Michel. The electric car here and now. September 2018. Now Future. Liège, Belgique. 978-2-930940-19-9. 240.