Michael Franzini

Michael Franzini

Michael Franzini is a photographer and director based in Los Angeles and New York City. His work with MTV has won numerous nominations and two Emmy Awards.[1][2]

He was Executive Creative Director of the STAND UP Campaign to improve America's education system. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation unveiled the STAND UP Campaign on The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 11 & 12, 2006.[3]

Wall-sized prints of his photographs have appeared in retail locations such as Pacific Sunwear, a chain of more than 800 retail stores targeting teens and young adults. [4]

Before attending film school at the University of Southern California, Franzini spent several years at Carnegie Mellon University and Telefonica I+D doing artificial intelligence research in the areas of speech recognition[5] and artificial neural networks.[6]

Michael Franzini is the author of One Hundred Young Americans, published by HarperCollins.[7] The book is a first-hand account of youth culture in America. It profiles one hundred teenagers in all fifty states. More than two hundred images show every kind of teenager from every part of the United States, mirroring census data for gender, race, religion and sexual orientation, balanced across urban, rural, suburban and small-town locations.

References

  1. ^ MTV/"Rollercoaster" EmmyOnline.org 2002 Winners
  2. ^ MTV/"Yellow T-Shirts" EmmyOnline.org Past Winners
  3. ^ "Campaign Seeks Buy-In for High School Reforms", Education Week, April 19, 2006
  4. ^ "California dreaming", VNU eMedia
  5. ^ Franzini, M.A., Witbrock, M.J. and Lee, K.F., "A Connectionist Approach to Continuous Speech Recognition", Proceedings of the IEEE 1989 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 1989.
  6. ^ Franzini, M.A., Witbrock, M.J. and Lee, K.F., "Speaker-Independent Recognition of Connected Utterances Using Recurrent and Non-recurrent Neural Networks", Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, June 1989.
  7. ^ HarperCollins press release for One Hundred Young Americans

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