Max V. Mathews

(1926- ) born in Columbus, Platte County. Computer scientist and composer, electrical engineer, developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories the first computer sound-synthesis languages, his MUSIC4 and MUSIC5 languages became the basis for almost all later developments in the field, recipient of Silver Medal from the Acoustical Society of America in 1989 for his pioneering work in electronic music and the applications of digital computers to music acoustics, elected to National Academy of Engineering. Consult The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, Vol 3 (Macmillan, 1986) 192.

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