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Barry Vercoe was born on 1937 in New Zealand, is an American computer scientist. Discover Barry Vercoe's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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1937

Barry Lloyd Vercoe (born 1937) is a New Zealand-born computer scientist and composer.

He is best known as the inventor of Csound, a music synthesis language with wide usage among computer music composers.

SAOL, the underlying language for the MPEG-4 Structured Audio standard, is also historically derived from Csound.

1959

Born in Wellington, Vercoe received undergraduate degrees in music (1959) and mathematics (1962) from the University of Auckland before emigrating to the United States.

1965

While employed as an assistant professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1965-1967) and as the Contemporary Music Project's Seattle/Tacoma composer-in-residence (1967-1968), he earned his A.Mus.D. in composition from the University of Michigan (where he studied with Ross Lee Finney) in 1968.

Prior to taking these positions, Vercoe supported his doctoral studies by working as a staff statistician at Michigan; it was in this capacity that first acquired an aptitude for computer programming by learning MAD.

In 1965, he married fellow composer and Michigan graduate student Elizabeth Vercoe; they had two children before divorcing in the early 1990s.

1970

From 1970 to 1971, he served as a visiting lecturer at the Yale School of Music.

1971

In 1971, Vercoe became an assistant professor of humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

As one of the epoch's few specialists in digital synthesis, he has speculated that he was indirectly recruited by president Jerome Wiesner through colleagues John Harbison and David Epstein because Wiesner harbored musical inclinations (having previously collaborated with Alan Lomax) and sought to establish an electronic music laboratory as an inevitable extension of the institution's mandate.

1973

After a two-year period in which Vercoe designed a real-time digital synthesizer, Wiesner and Edward Fredkin personally procured a PDP-11 for the fledgling research program from Digital Equipment Corporation in the summer of 1973, enabling him to abandon his previous methodology in favor of a streamlined, software-based approach.

Shortly thereafter, the Experimental Music Studio was formed in laboratory space vacated by Amar Bose.

1974

Following promotion to associate professor in 1974, he joined the Lab for Computer Science as an associate member in 1977.

1983

He served as a consultant for the Boston Composers Project bibliography of Boston-area composers and compositions, first edition published in 1983.

1984

He became a founding member of the MIT Media Lab upon promotion to full professor in 1984 and continues to this day as professor emeritus of music and media arts.

1993

He married Kathryn Veda Vaughn in 1993.

During a summer respite from his doctoral studies and a subsequent two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University under Godfrey Winham, his research in digital audio processing paved the way for the subsequent evolution of digital musical composition.

2000

For many years, he directed research in machine listening and digital audio synthesis as head of the Lab's Music, Mind, and Machine group and served as associate academic head of its graduate program in media arts and sciences from 2000 until his retirement in 2010.

His notable students include Susan Frykberg, Miller Puckette and Paris Smaragdis.

2015

As of 2015, he resides in Tauranga, New Zealand, where he co-founded and directs One Education, an offshoot of the One Laptop per Child initiative.

He is also an accomplished jazz musician.