Ge Wang is a Chinese American musician and computer scientist, known for developing the ChucK

ChucK

ChucK is a concurrent, strongly timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and iPhone/iPad. It is designed to favor readability and flexibility for the programmer over other considerations such...

 audio programming language as a graduate student advised by Perry Cook, and for being co-founder and chief technology officer of Smule

Smule

Smule is an American software and video game developer and publisher headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Smule develops interactive "sonic" applications for the iPhone and other technology platforms...

, a company making iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

 and iPad

IPad

The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...

 music apps. He also helped create the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and later its Stanford counterpart, as well as the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra. Wang is currently an assistant professor Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

External links

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/digital_giants/8551849.stm