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Perry R. Cook
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<p>Perry R. Cook (born September 25, 1955) is an American <a href="/facts/Computer_music/2bS14C3D">computer music</a> researcher and professor emeritus of <a href="/facts/Computer_science/lN3pEyPz">computer science</a> and <a href="/facts/Music/hDVP0xsQ">music</a> at <a href="/facts/Princeton_University/n3EPGHBM">Princeton University</a>. He was also founder and head of the <a href="/facts/Princeton_Sound_Lab/pCvrJfDS">Princeton Sound Lab</a>. </p><p>Cook has worked in the areas of <a href="/facts/Physical_modeling/vkEbmbKm">physical modeling</a>, singing voice synthesis, music information retrieval, principles of computer music controller design, <a href="/facts/Audio_analysis/sW4lN5mn">audio analysis</a> and real-time <a href="/facts/Computer_music_programming_languages/fYAnqH3w">computer music programming languages</a> and systems, and has written a number of books on these subjects. Together with <a href="/facts/Gary_Scavone/2wz5hc6f">Gary Scavone</a>, he authored the <a href="/facts/Synthesis_Toolkit/l6sxjxMG">Synthesis Toolkit</a> and with <a href="/facts/Ge_Wang/pyPrK3tB">Ge Wang</a> the <a href="/facts/ChucK/CuSNkLhf">ChucK</a> programming language. He is also a co-founder, with <a href="/facts/Dan_Trueman/PJdLeznT">Dan Trueman</a> in 2005, of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (<a href="/facts/PLOrk/D15BG2gq">PLOrk</a>). Cook was an invited keynote speaker at <a href="/facts/NIME/zerI9on4">NIME</a>-07, held in New York City in June, 2007. He is a Fellow of the <a href="/facts/Association_for_Computing_Machinery/abI2atlP">Association for Computing Machinery</a> (2008) and the Guggenheim Foundation (2003). </p><p>Cook is also an avid conch shell musician, including the ancient conch-shell Peruvian instrument known as pututus. </p><p>Cook is a founding advisor (since 2008) to <a href="/facts/Smule/dNLYLB79">Smule</a>, a successful mobile music app company. </p><p>In 2012, Cook and <a href="/facts/Ajay_Kapur/K0gKzAdw">Ajay Kapur</a> received an NSF-funded grant to create a programming and technology curriculum for art schools. Beginning in 2013 with <a href="/facts/Ajay_Kapur/K0gKzAdw">Ajay Kapur</a> and others, Cook co-founded <a href="/facts/Kadenze/K0gKzAdw">Kadenze</a>, an online arts education company. </p><p>His adviser was <a href="/facts/Julius_Orion_Smith_III/yYsV8FdX">Julius Orion Smith III</a> at Stanford. </p>