Music and electronics have both played important roles in Nick’s life from an early age. He takes great delight in a variety of musical genres, listening during the day to a computer-based office system with a second reference system in the living room for evenings. Nicholas is a native New Englander and spent countless enjoyable hours in Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Handel and Haydn Society. However, the continuing prospect of six months a year enduring cold and darkness plus the sale of a high-tech scientific image-processing startup prompted relocation to Hawaii. Eventually he landed on Maui where the music scene is quite lively. Willie Nelson lives there part-time, sometimes materializing in North Shore hang-outs unannounced. And Maui’s attractions bring in the likes of Björk, Aerosmith, Eddie Vedder and many others looking for some R&R at the end of a long tour. As a balance to his current 'real' work in knowledge-visualization software, Nick also enjoys writing for the consumer electronics press. This endeavor is focused on helping the enthusiast community understand new technologies and product categories starting with HDTV in the original incarnation of The Perfect Vision back in 1987 ("HDTV is just around the corner"). These efforts continued to evolve with extensive coverage of emerging digital media technologies including the first digital music server review in the The Absolute Sound, the Linn Kivor. Featuring a computer-based product in TAS in 2004 raised quite a few eyebrows but the editor Robert Harley had his eye on the future. In the past few years, TAS, TPV and Mix have published 20+ columns, equipment reviews, articles and other contributions along these lines. Nick also enjoys the usual Maui enthusiasms of world-class yoga, meditation, swimming and attempting to train a pair of parrots. Nicholas Bedworth: Representative professional research and development activities 1. High-resolution 4096 x 4096 x 24-bit analogue/digital conversion of high-energy particle-scattering imagery with three-dimension reconstruction; measurement of vertices and calculation of particle momentum with computer-graphic visualization. - Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and Yale University, New Haven, CT. 2. Electrophysiological investigation of sensory neurons and cybernetic modeling of transfer functions; software-driven signal analysis - Sonderforschungsbereich für Kybernetik and Max Planck Gesellschaft, München, BRD. 3. Multichannel electroencephalographic analysis with real-time Fast Fourier Transform - University of California, Los Angeles, CA. 4. High-speed image acquisition subsystems for computed axial-tomographic devices for industrial and medical application including multi-ported memory; narrow-aperture sample-and-hold amplification with low-jitter analog/digital sample conversion. - American Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA. 5. Low-latency 100 nanosecond microprocessor writable control store and firmware - Quadex Technology, Cambridge, MA. 6. Ultra-low dosage X-ray digital radiography scanner systems -American Science and Engineering. 7. Narrow-band spectroscopic analysis of hyper-sonic combustion flow fields using nanosecond-scale pulsed dye laser illumination and image intensification -University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL; Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA; Volvo, Goteborg, Sweden; University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. 8. Real-time Fast Fourier Transform image processing software for phase-contrast microscopy -Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, and University of California, Los Angeles, CA. 9. Standing acoustic-wave optical signal processing apparatus, 10MHz sampling rate, 24+bit quantization -. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 10. High-phase resolution image scanning and networked distribution technology -Bell and Howell Corporation, Wooster, OH.