Apple has hired a senior prototype scientist who’s got expertise in wearable computing, according to a Fast Company report. His name is Richard DeVaul, and he was an organizer for the MIThril wearable computing project while a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. DeVaul describes himself as an “expert in signal processing and real-time statistical classification techniques.” He was awarded a patent in 2007 for a distributed voice and data communications network.
