{
  "firstname": "Michael",
  "lastname": "Hawley",
  "handle": "",
  "birth": "",
  "death": "2020",
  "obituary": "https://news.mit.edu/2020/michael-hawley-former-professor-media-arts-sciences-dies-0625",
  "issue": "155",
  "affiliations": "",
  "mainimage": "images/michael_hawley01.jpg",
  "maintext": "Hawley participated in some of the great digital breakthroughs of the last 40 years, from writing UNIX code at Bell Labs as a teenager, to his work pioneering digital cinema and sound technology at LucasFilm, to his innovation of large-imprint digital photo systems, which led to the 2003 publication of 'Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom,' measuring 5’ x 7’ and weighing over 150 pounds, giving it the distinction of being documented as the world’s largest published book in the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'",
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  "gallery": [
    {
      "url": "images/michael_hawley02.jpg",
      "title": "Photo of Michael Hawley",
      "caption": "Photo of Michael Hawley"
    }
  ]
}