# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/miller-puckette
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:37:39.726Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/miller-puckette"
name: "Miller Puckette"
slug: "miller-puckette"
description: "Miller Smith Puckette is an American computer scientist and musician. Puckette is best known for authoring Max, a visual programming language for music and multimedia, which he initially developed while working at IRCAM in Paris in the late 1980s. He is also the author of Pure Data (Pd), an open source successor to Max written in the 1990s with input from many others in the computer music and free software communities. Puckette is professor emeritus of computer music at the University of California, San Diego, and was the associate director of the university's Center for Research in Computing and the Arts from 2000 until its closure in 2011."
tagline: "American academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Miller_Puckette_auf_der_Linux_Audio_Conference_2014_in_Karlsruhe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959-03-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.889634666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Miller Puckette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Puckette"
    title: "Miller Puckette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Puckette"
    title: "Miller Puckette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%82%B1%E3%83%83%E3%83%88"
    title: "ミラー・パケット"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Puckette"
    title: "Miller Puckette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Puckette"
    title: "Miller Puckette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716866"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump