Barry Vercoe
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Barry Vercoe is a New Zealand-born computer scientist and composer. Vercoe was a founding member of the MIT Media Lab in 1984. He continues to this day at the laboratory as a professor and an Associate Head of the Academic program in Media, Arts and Sciences..
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.