Perry Cook

PERRY R. COOK received a BA in music in 1985 and a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1986 from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, graduating Magna Cum Laude. He received a Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1990. Along with working for companies such as NeXT Inc., Media Vision, Xenon/Chromatic, and Interval Research, he continued at Stanford as Technical/Acting Director of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, until joining the faculty of Princeton University in 1996 as a Professor of Computer Science, with a joint appointment in Music. Cook is also the author of the Synthesis Toolkit in C++ (STK), which he comaintains with Gary Scavone. Perry is also coauthor (with Ge Wang) of the ChucK audio programming language. He is now Emeritus Professor at Princeton, and holds faculty/ arts fellowships at the California Institute of the Arts, Arizona State University, and other institutions. Perry is also a founding adviser/consultant to the mobile music startup Smule, and cofounder (with Ajay and others) of Kadenze, an online arts/technology education startup.