Michael currently has a consulting firm on future directions in business technology, with a recent focus on artificial intelligence technologies, their applications, and associated infrastructure. He also chairs the Advisory Board for ClinicAI, Inc., a healthcare startup. He retired from Intel Corporation as its Chief Technology Officer for the Client Division, at that time the largest division of Intel.

He has had both industry and academic roles. Academics at Princeton University and the University of Illinois. In industry, he worked in AT&T Bell Laboratories as an architect for the BELLMAC-32 processor (whose technology is being used across the industry today) and other roles. At Sun, he established UNIX interface standards as well as managed development processes. Starting as director of research in Intel he eventually moved to product development as the Client CTO.

Michael has had many roles in IEEE, including President of the TEMS Society (2016-2019), Senior board member for IES, and Board member of the Consumer Technology Society. As a member of the new Industry Engagement Committee, he conceived and created this World Technology Summit.