Leonard Maxwell Isaacson (December 15, 1925 – July 1, 2018) was an American chemist and composer.
Isaacson was born in
Chicago, Illinois
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on December 15, 1925. He collaborated with
Lejaren Hiller
Lejaren Arthur Hiller Jr. (February 23, 1924, New York City – January 26, 1994, Buffalo, New York)[Lejaren ...](_blank)
on the computer-programmed acoustic composition, ''
Illiac Suite'' (1957). At the time, both composers were professors at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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, and used the university's room-size
ILLIAC I
The ILLIAC I (Illinois Automatic Computer), a pioneering computer in the ILLIAC series of computers built in 1952 by the University of Illinois, was the first computer built and owned entirely by a United States educational institution.
Compute ...
. He died in
Belvedere Tiburon, California on July 1, 2018, at the age of 92.
Bibliography
*Hiller, Lejaren A., and Leonard M. Issacson. (1959/1979)
''Experimental Music: Composition With an Electronic Computer''.McGraw-Hill, New York. .
References
1925 births
2018 deaths
Issacson
Issacson
American chemists
Musicians from Chicago
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
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