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February 23, 1924 – Happy Birthday Lejaren Hiller

Written By: evan on February 23, 2010 No Comment

On February 23rd, 1924, Lejaren Hiller was born in New York City. Hiller would become recognized as one of the pioneers of algorithmic composition. In 1957 he wrote the first major computer assisted composition. The Illiac Suite was composed using University of Illinois’ Illiac computer.

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