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Miller Smith Puckette (born 1959) is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a professor of music at the
International Math Olympiads
on imo-official.org
Who Owns our Software?: A first-person case study
�� Proceedings, ISEA, pp. 200–202, republished in September 2009 issue of Montréal: Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / Canadian Electroacoustic Community. * Puckette, Miller (2002) '' Computer Music Journal'' 26(4): pp. 31–43.
Miller Puckette's websiteVisual Music Project
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Miller Smith Puckette (born 1959) is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...
, where he has been since 1994.
Puckette is known for authoring Max, a graphical development environment for music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...
and multimedia
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synthesis, which he developed while working at IRCAM in the late 1980s. He is also the author of Pure Data (Pd), a real-time performing platform for audio, video and graphical programming language
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for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works, written in the 1990s with input from many others in the computer music and free software
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communities.
Biography
An alumnus of St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Tennessee, Miller Puckette got involved in computer music in 1979 at MIT with Barry Vercoe. Stallmann, Kurt: A Conversation with Miller Puckette: 2008 SEAMUS Award Recipient. ''Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States Newsletter'', June 2008, Issue 2, Page 5-9. In 1979 he became a Putnam Fellow. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics fromHarvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
in 1986 after completing an undergraduate degree at MIT in 1980. He was a member of the MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, School of Architecture. Its research does not restrict to fi ...
from its opening in 1985 until 1987 before continuing his research at IRCAM, and since 1997 has been a part of the Global Visual Music project.
He used Max to complete his first work, which is called ''Pluton'' from the second work of Manoury' series called ''Sonus ex Machina''.
He is the 2008 SEAMUS Award Recipient.
On May 11, 2011, he received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Mons.
On July 21, 2012, he received an Honorary Degree from Bath Spa University in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to computer music research.
He was the recipient of the Gold Medal at the 1975 Math Olympiads and the Silver Medal at the 1976 Math Olympiads.on imo-official.org
Selected publications
: ''For a full list, see: http://msp.ucsd.edu/publications.html'' * * Puckette, Miller (2004) �Who Owns our Software?: A first-person case study
�� Proceedings, ISEA, pp. 200–202, republished in September 2009 issue of Montréal: Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / Canadian Electroacoustic Community. * Puckette, Miller (2002) '' Computer Music Journal'' 26(4): pp. 31–43.
References
External links
Miller Puckette's website
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