Michael Chorost (born December 26, 1964) is an American book author, essayist, and public speaker. Born with severe loss of hearing due to

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, his hearing was partially restored with a

cochlear implant A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted neuroprosthesis that provides a person who has moderate-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss with sound perception. With the help of therapy, cochlear implants may allow for improved speech unde ...

in 2001 and he had his other ear implanted in 2007.

Career and published works

He wrote a memoir of the experience, titled ''Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human'' (Houghton Mifflin, 2005, ). Its paperback version has a different subtitle, ''Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World'', . In August 2006 ''Rebuilt'' won th
PEN/USA Book Award for Creative Nonfiction
His second book, ''World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet'', , was published by Free Press on February 15, 2011. Dr. Chorost has published in ''Wired'', ''New Scientist'', ''Astronomy Now'', ''The Futurist'', ''The Scientist'', ''Technology Review'', the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'', and ''SKY''. He co-wrote a PBS television show titled ''The 22nd Century'' which aired in January 2007. He was a member of the

San Francisco Writers Workshop The San Francisco Writers Workshop is one of the oldest continuously running writing critique groups in the United States, meeting every Tuesday night, except for major holidays, since 1946. Successful published authors who first workshopped their b ...

. Dr. Chorost is frequently interviewed as an authority on cochlear implants and neurally controlled prosthetics by national media such as ''PBS Newshour'', the ''New York Times'' and ''The Economist''. He lectures frequently at universities, conferences, corporations, and organizations for the deaf.

Education and personal life

Born in

New Jersey New Jersey is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York (state), New York; on the ea ...

and educated at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Provide ...

, the University of Texas at Austin and

University of Wales, Lampeter University of Wales, Lampeter ( cy, Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) was a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822, and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, it was the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, with limited ...

. He now lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two cats.

References

External links

Official web site
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