David Cope
David Cope | |
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| Born | May 17, 1941 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | May 4, 2025 (aged 83) Santa Cruz, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Author, composer, scientist, professor |
| Employer | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Known for | Research in artificial intelligence and music |
| Notable work | EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence), Emily Howell |
| Title | Dickerson Emeriti Professor of Music |
David Howell Cope (May 17, 1941 – May 4, 2025) was an American author, composer, scientist, and Dickerson Professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz. His primary area of research involved artificial intelligence and music; he wrote programs and algorithms that can analyze existing music and create new compositions in the style of the original input music. He taught the groundbreaking summer workshop in Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music (WACM) that was open to the public as well as a general education course entitled Artificial Intelligence and Music for enrolled UCSC students. Cope was also co-founder and CTO Emeritus of Recombinant Inc., a music technology company. He died of congestive heart failure on May 4, 2025, at the age of 83.