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Max Mathews

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Max Vernon Mathews (1926/11/13 - 2011/4/21) was a scientist, inventor, and musician born in Nebraska, United States, and a pioneer of computer music. The father of computer music Background After studying at the California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earning a Doctor of Science in 1954, he worked at Bell Laboratories, developing the MUSIC-N series of music-programming languages (1957–), widely used for sound generation. He subsequently became a leading figure in digital audio and sound synthesis, and in research on human-machine interfaces associated with playing musical instruments. Research The performance in 1951 by CSIRAC, a computer developed in Australia, was the world's first computer sound synthesis, but through the MUSIC-N series he developed, Mathews greatly contributed to subsequent music-programming languages and applications using digital technology worldwide. In 1961, he added an accompaniment to “Daisy Bell,” the culmination of his colleague John Larry Kelly Jr.'s speech synthesis, and served as director of Bell Laboratories' Acoustics and Behavioral Research Center from 1962 to 1985. The center studies speech communication, visual communication, learning and memory, robotics, organized knowledge, analysis of subjectivity, physical acoustics, and more. He served as scientific advisor to France's Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) from 1974 to 1980, and as a professor at Stanford University from 1987 onward. Awarded the IEEE David Sarnoff Award in 1973. Died in San Francisco of pneumonia on 2011/4/211. Notes Max, a visual programming language widely used today by composers and media artists, is named after Mathews. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Max_Mathews_on_80th_birthday.jpg

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