David Cope

David Cope is an American author, composer, scientist, and Dickerson Emeriti Professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz. His primary area of research involves artificial intelligence and music; he writes 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 is also co-founder and CTO Emeritus of Recombinant Inc., a music technology company. ^{David Cope, American composer and author}

17 May 1941

Born on the same birth date (17 May 1941): Ben Nelson

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Born in the same month (May 1941): Ben Nelson • Clay Carroll • Gino Brito • Igor Judge, Baron Judge • James Traficant • Jim Dobbin • Joe Brown (musician) • Louis Ignarro • Malcolm Longair • Menzies Campbell • Miriam Margolyes • Nora Ephron • Ritchie Valens • Rudolf Adler • Senta Berger • Uta Frith • Vladimir Voronin