Innovation expertise | UMaine readies for Doug Hall's creativity-based curriculum

Doug Hall — inventor, entrepreneur and the person once dubbed by caustic "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell as "the most annoying man in America" — will teach two courses in the fall at the University of Maine in the minor he helped create.

Hall, a UMaine alumnus who last year delivered the school’s commencement speech, will move from Ohio to a home on campus to teach "Innovation Engineering I: The beginning of an idea" and "Innovation Engineering III: Making your id ...