Source: Ars Electronica
Miller Puckette is known as the creator of the Max and Pure Data real-time computer music software environments. As an MIT student he won the 1979 Putnam mathematics competition. His PhD in mathematics is from Harvard University. He was a researcher at the MIT Media lab from its inception until 1986, then at IRCAM (Paris, France, where he is now a visiting researcher), and is 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, and has won two honorary degrees, the 2008 SEAMUS award, and the 2023 Silver Lion of the Venice Biennale Musica.
Puckette has performed widely in venues including Centre Acanthes, Carnegie Hall, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the Ojai Music festival, Ars Electronica, and a cistern beneath Guanajuato, Mexico. His installation, Four Sound Portraits, was shown at the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
