Barry Vercoe Email & Phone Number

Educ in New Zealand and US in mathematics and musicPhilip Neill Prize in Music Comp, Uni Otago NZ,1959Ford Composer-in-Residence, Seattle Schools, 1967-68Conductor SecSchls Natl Cnventn, Seattle Opera Hse, 1968Taught Oberlin College Ohio, Yale University 1970-71Res in Digital Audio Processing, Princeton U, 1968-71Faculty of Mass Insitute of Technology, 1971 - presentEstablished MIT Experimental Music Studio, 1973Co-Dev World 1st Float-Pt Dig-to-Aud Converters, 1975MIT Annual Sum Classes in Comp Mus Comp, 1976-85Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, 1983-84Res in Interactive Digital Audio, IRCAM Paris 1983-85Founding member, MIT Media Lab, 1985Supervisor Grad Research, MIT Media Lab, 1985 - presentComputerWorld-sponsored US Smithsonian Award, 1992Csound becomes core technology of MPEG-4 Audio, 1995Consultant for Analog Devices Digital Audio, 1996-2002World's first Software-only Karaoke machine, Japan 2001Keynote, World Academy of Science Conf, 2004, 2006Co-developer, One Laptop per Child US, 2006Co-founder & Director One Laptop per Child Australia, 2007Keynote, New Zealand Gov Digital Future Summit, 2007Educational Advisory, Australia Future Summit, 2008Est Schols to send Chch Choir Boys to Cath Grammar, 2011Assist deploy XO laptops in Remote Australia, 2010-2012Founder & CEO One Laptop per Child New ZealandAdded Te Reo Maori language for XO laptops in NZKeynote, New Zealand National IT Conference, 2013Founding Investor Echo Nest Music Intelligence Co, 2006Echo Nest fully acquired by Spotify as Mus Intel arm, 2014Keynote, Youth Innovation Forum, Tauranga NZ 2015Speaker, TEDxChristchurch2016, Christchurch NZ, 2016Specialties: Audio research and Innovation, world-wide education of disadvantaged children.

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