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Record producer and computer science lecturer
Caleb August Southern (December 26, 1969 – July 6, 2023) was an American musician,
record producer and
computer science lecturer at the
Georgia Institute of Technology .
[1]
[2] He was referred to as the "fourth member" of
Ben Folds Five .
Early life
Caleb August Southern was born on December 26, 1969, in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina , to David Southern and Susan Naumoff.
[3] He attended
Jordan High School , where he formed a band called "The Ledbetters". They played a gig at
Cat's Cradle in 1988.
[3]
Southern completed his bachelor's in mathematics and computer science at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996, having paused his education while touring with Ben Folds Five.
[3]
Career
In the early 1990s, Caleb founded Kraptone Studios, where he produced for
Ben Folds Five and
Archers of Loaf .
[3] As of 2002, he was a member of Partners Against Crime, District 5.
[4]
Ben Folds has called him the "fourth member" of
Ben Folds Five .
[5] He collaborated with Ben Folds on their album
Fear of Pop , as well.[
citation needed ]
Southern began a
PhD at
Georgia Tech in 2010, focusing on
human–computer interaction for mobile devices.
[2] He was awarded a
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in 2012.
[3]
Personal life and death
Southern was married to Josephine Worthington. They lived together in Atlanta, Georgia, where he died on July 6, 2023, at the age of 53.
[3]
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Southern, Caleb; Clawson, James; Frey, Brian; Abowd, Gregory; Romero, Mario (2012-09-21).
"An evaluation of BrailleTouch" .
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services . MobileHCI '12. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 317–326.
doi :
10.1145/2371574.2371623 .
ISBN
978-1-4503-1105-2 .
S2CID
7090994 .
Frey, Brian; Southern, Caleb; Romero, Mario (2011).
"BrailleTouch: Mobile Texting for the Visually Impaired" . In Stephanidis, Constantine (ed.). Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Context Diversity . Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 6767. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 19–25.
doi :
10.1007/978-3-642-21666-4_3 .
ISBN
978-3-642-21666-4 .
S2CID
1437801 .
Romero, Mario; Frey, Brian; Southern, Caleb; Abowd, Gregory D. (2011-08-30).
"BrailleTouch" .
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services . MobileHCI '11. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 707–709.
doi :
10.1145/2037373.2037491 .
ISBN
978-1-4503-0541-9 .
S2CID
41547754 .
Zhang, Cheng; Yang, Junrui; Southern, Caleb; Starner, Thad E.; Abowd, Gregory D. (2016-09-12).
"WatchOut" . Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers . ISWC '16. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 136–143.
doi :
10.1145/2971763.2971775 .
ISBN
978-1-4503-4460-9 .
S2CID
15096573 .
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