Dr. Miller Puckette (Harvard; mathematics) is known as the creator of Max and Pure Data.  As an MIT undergraduate he won the 1979 Putnam mathematics competition.  He was a researcher at the MIT Media lab from its inception until 1986, then at IRCAM, and is now distinguished professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.  He has been a visiting professor at Columbia University and the Technical University of Berlin, has won two honorary degrees, the SEAMUS award (US), and has been selected for the 2023 Silver Lion award of the Venice Biennale Musica. 

hosts the Topicgroup Workshops: Sensing, Signal Detection, and Interactivity