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Miller PucketteMiller Puckette obtained his B.S. in Mathematics from MIT in 1980, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard six years later. Puckette was a member of MIT's notorious Media Lab from its creation until 1987. It was then that he joined IRCAM as a researcher. (l'Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Musique/Acoustique, founded by composer and conductor Pierre Boulez). He then wrote the "Max" program for Apple Computer Inc., which was originally distributed commercially by Opcode Systems in 1990 and is now available from Cycling74.com. In 1989 Puckette joined the "Musical Workstation" at IRCAM and put together an enhanced version of Max, called Max/FTS, which was commercialized by Ariel, Inc. This system became a widely used platform in computer music research and production facilities. The IRCAM real-time development team has since reimplemented and extended this software under the name jMax, which is distributed free with source code. Puckette went on to join the Music department of the University of California, San Diego in 1994, and is now Associate Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). This program is considered by some to be a parallel institution to the one at MIT. He currently updates a new real-time software system for live music and multimedia performances called Pure Data ("Pd"), in collaboration with many other artists/researchers/programmers worldwide. Pd is free and runs on Linux, IRIX, Macintosh, and Windows systems. It was Pd, that led to the influential software called Max/MSP which was created by both Puckette and David Zicarelli. Max/MSP, now available at Cycling74.com, continually pushes the boundaries of digital new media and computational music composition, from a corporate point of view. Puckette, unhappy with the restraints of licensed software, has left the developement team of Max/MSP, to work on Pd. Pd, the open source equivalent of Max/MSP, grows larger in online communities and educational institutions, and is regularly maintained by Puckette himself. Since 1997 Puckette has also been part of the Global Visual Music project with Mark Danks, Rand Steiger, and Vibeke Sorensen, which has been generously supported by a grant from the Intel Research Council. Puckette is also a Putnam Fellow, having achieved the honor in 1979. External links Miller Puckette's website
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