Michael Ruiz compares the evolution of the Polaroid camera to learning musical composition.

Michael Ruiz has a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Maryland (1978) and is Professor of Physics at UNC Asheville. He is a pianist who has studied with Stewart Gordon (classical) and Ron Elliston (jazz) at the University of MD in the 1970s. Ruiz is a composer of three piano concertos performed by the Winston-Salem Symphony, with each of his three children as soloists. He has been featured on CNN for developing innovative interactive multimedia e-texts in higher education. Ruiz is the 2004 UNC Asheville recipient of the UNC Board of Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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