J. Michael McCarthy has over 200 publications and several books including The Geometric Design of Linkages (Springer 2000, 2nd Ed. 2010). He recently released a new book, Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms: a project based approach, in print and in electronic form. He has also published a revised printing of Introduction to Theoretical Kinematics, and Kinematics and Polynomials in Brief, both of which can be found on Apple’s iBooks system. He also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (2002-2007) and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (2007-2014). His research team is responsible for the Sphinx, Synthetica and MecGen software packages, which extend computer-aided design to spherical and spatial linkage systems and integrate this process with geometric modeling. He has presented tutorials on the design of linkages and robotic systems at ASME and IEEE conferences, including the NSF sponsored 2012 Workshop on 21st Century