Vercoe, Barry

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Vercoe, Barry
Date of birth
1937-07-24
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 53208423
Wikidata: Q4864868
Library of congress: n 87817045
Sources of Information
  • nuc87-23618: Pinkston, R. An introduction to Barry ... c1979(hdg. on NNC rept.: Vercoe, Barry; usage: Barry Vercoe)
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Wikipedia description:

Barry Lloyd Vercoe (24 July 1937 – 15 June 2025) was an American computer scientist and composer. Born in New Zealand, he is best known as the inventor of Csound, a music synthesis language with wide usage among computer music composers. SAOL, the underlying language for the MPEG-4 Structured Audio standard, is also historically derived from Csound.

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