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Miller Smith Puckette (born 1959) is the associate director of theCenter for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a professor of music at theUniversity of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994.Puckette is known for authoringMax, a graphical development environment formusic andmultimedia synthesis, which he developed while working atIRCAM in the late 1980s. He is also the author ofPure Data (Pd), a real-time performing platform for audio, video and graphicalprogramming language for the creation of interactivecomputer music and multimedia works, written in the 1990s with input from many others in the computer music andfree software communities.
An alumnus ofSt. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Tennessee, Miller Puckette got involved in computer music in 1979 at MIT withBarry Vercoe.[1] In 1979 he became aPutnam Fellow.[2]He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics fromHarvard University in 1986 after completing an undergraduate degree atMIT in 1980. He was a member of theMIT Media Lab from its opening in 1985 until 1987 before continuing his research atIRCAM, and since 1997 has been a part of the Global Visual Music project.He used Max to complete his first work, which is calledPluton from the second work of Manoury' series calledSonus ex Machina.[1]He is the 2008SEAMUS Award Recipient.[1]On May 11, 2011, he received the title ofDoctor Honoris Causa from theUniversity of Mons.[3]On July 21, 2012, he received an Honorary Degree fromBath Spa University in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to computer music research.[4]He was the recipient of the Gold Medal at the 1975 Math Olympiads and the Silver Medal at the 1976 Math Olympiads.[5]
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