Rory Lewis is standing in front of a blackboard in his office in the computer science building at UNCC with Dr. Zbigniew W. Ras, a leading researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. The two are trying to explain their recent project the creation of a system that recognizes specific moods and emotions in music. It's a terribly ambitious and complext project that involves A.I. and hours of indexing of sounds and melodies. It's enough to make Lewis want to have a beer and burn some incense. A week earlier, Lewis was doing just that: Standing at a microphone in a cramped rehearsal space near Carowinds with members of his rock group, a guitar strapped to his shoulders, his long, messy hair in his face and a Miller Light in his hand. He was singing about a bare-breasted hippie girls. Who is this Rory Lewis? By day, the native of South Africa is an instructor at UNCC pursing his PhD in information technology. By night, he fronts the Rory Lewis Band, one of the most successful unsigned rock bands on the Internet. This profile will juxtapose Lewis two lives, and how he's used his expertise in computer science to create a huge Internet following that landed the band on a Rolling Stone magazine's most downloaded chart. ***Rory will be working on a math problem like always does on a whiteboa rd. please get action shots of him solving this problem. his professor and dean will be there. he works with them on these problems. I don't want a portrait of the three of them. I was told that he will have a lot of stuff written on the board, which he will try to solve. Also, please get mug shots of all three of them for the story. thanks.