Michael Good and JoAnn Close's Home Page

Welcome to our Web site. We have a mix of the professional and the personal here.

Professional

Michael Good is Founder and CEO of Recordare LLC in Los Altos, California. Recordare sells digital sheet music and music software using the MusicXML format. MusicXML is a new computer format for music notation that finally allows digital sheet music to be used by more than one piece of software. Before starting Recordare, Michael was Manager of Advanced User Interface Technology at SAP Labs, Inc. in Palo Alto, California. He designed new user interfaces for SAP's Business Information Warehouse, and was an architect and developer of SAP's first Employee Self Service products. For many years he worked in the Software Usability Engineering group at Digital Equipment Corporation, investigating usability engineering processes, text editors, windowing systems, and virtual reality. His Songs and Schemas blog discusses music, software, and combinations thereof.

JoAnn Close is an analog integrated circuit designer and group leader at Analog Devices, Inc. in San Jose, California. She's designed mostly operational amplifiers of various types - still at it too. She has also designed high-speed analog multiplexers and a Hall effect sensor. Her newest chip is the ADA4941 single-supply, low power differential 18-bit ADC driver. She blogs at Blonde and Bipolar.

Personal

We both love classical music, and met in the MIT Concert Band. Now we sing together in the Stanford Symphonic Chorus and West Bay Opera. Michael is also a pop and jazz fan.

We both like cooking and eating, and share our thoughts in the Ex-Bostonian's Guide to Silicon Valley Dining. We are wine fans too. With all the interest Californian wineries have in Italian varietals these days, how come nobody produces a Negroamaro wine?

Our artistic talents are more musical than visual, but we certainly love good art. We are big fans of Judy Stone's enamels and have her light switch covers throughout the house. Michael has helped Judy create and update her web site. Once you visit, you may see why we are so enamored of her work.

Last updated November 23, 2009.