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Harvard University.
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Miller Puckette
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Puckette is known for authoring Max, a graphical development environment for music and multimedia synthesis, which he developed while working at IRCAM in the late 1980s. He is also the author of Pure Data (Pd), a real-time performing platform for audio, video and graphical programming language for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works, written in the 1990s with input from many others in the computer music and free software communities. Miller Puckette got involved in computer music in 1979 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Barry Vercoe.
In 1979 he became a Putnam Fellow.
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from Harvard University in 1986 after completing an undergraduate degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. He used Max to complete his first work, which is called Pluton from the second work of Manoury" series called Sonus ex Machina.
On May 11, 2011, he received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Mons. On July 21, 2012, he received an Honorary Degree from Bath Spa University in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to computer music research.
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He was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory from its opening in 1985 until 1987 before continuing his research at IRCAM, and since 1997 has been a part of the Global Visual Music project
