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Miller Puckette

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American academic

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1959 · age 67
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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.

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Miller Puckette at the Linux Audio Conference 2014 at ZKM in KarlsruheMiller Puckette at the Linux Audio Conference 2014 at ZKM in Karlsruhe

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1979Putnam Fellow

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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.

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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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living
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Born 1959 · age 67
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