Ge Wang

{{Short description|Chinese-American musician, businessman (born 1977)}} {{notability|academic|date=May 2024}} {{COI|date=April 2022}}  {{Infobox scientist  | name = Ge Wang | native_name = 王戈 (Wáng Gē) | native_name_lang = Chinese | image = GeWang.jpg | alt = Ge Wang Portrait | caption = Ge Wang | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|11|02}} | birth_place = Beijing, China | other_names = Gary | fields = {{plainlist| * Computer Music * Musical Interaction Design * Mobile Music * CS+Music Education }} | workplaces = {{plainlist| * Stanford University }} | alma_mater = {{plainlist| * Duke University (B.S.) * Princeton University (M.S., Ph.D.) }} | thesis_title = The ChucK Audio Programming Language | thesis_url = http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~gewang/thesis.html | thesis_year = 2008 | doctoral_advisor = Perry R. Cook | doctoral_students = | known_for = {{plainlist| * ChucK programming language * Stanford Laptop Orchestra * Co-founder of Smule * music interaction design}} | website = {{URL|https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/}} }}

'''Ge Wang''' (born November 2, 1977) is a Chinese-American professor, musician, computer scientist, designer, and author. He is best known for inventing the ChucK audio programming language<ref>{{cite thesis |type=Ph.D. |last=Wang |first=Ge |date=2008 |title=The ChucK Audio Programming Language: A Strongly-timed and On-the-fly Environ/mentality |url=http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~gewang/thesis.html|publisher=Princeton University}}</ref> and for being the co-founder, chief technology officer (CTO), and chief creative officer (CCO) of Smule, a company making iPhone and iPad music apps.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/ge-wang-the-iphones-music-man |title=Ge Wang: The iPhone's Music Man – IEEE Spectrum |date=September 2009 |publisher=IEEE |access-date=November 12, 2011}}</ref><ref name="scientificamerican1">{{cite web|last=Greenemeier |first=Larry |url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=iphone-ocarina-music |title=Is That Ocarina Music Coming from Your iPhone? |publisher=Scientific American |access-date=November 12, 2011}}</ref><ref name="nytimes1">{{cite web|last=Cain |first=Claire |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/technology/05orchestra.html |title=From Pocket to Stage, Music in the Key of iPhone |work=The New York Times |date=December 9, 2009 |access-date=November 12, 2011}}</ref><ref name="nytimes2">{{cite web|last=Walker|first=Rob|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/magazine/smule.html|title=The Machine That Makes You Musical|work=The New York Times Magazine|date=November 23, 2011|access-date=June 6, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Graham |first=Jefferson |url=https://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2010-11-10-Smule10_ST_N.htm |title=Smule adds Magic Fiddle to its Ocarina and Magic Piano apps |work=USA Today |date=November 10, 2010 |access-date=November 12, 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/02/18/1234632801820.html Laptop maestro makes music apt for the iPhone], The Sydney Morning Herald</ref>

== Career == Wang is also known for creating the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and later founded Stanford Laptop Orchestra,<ref name="autogenerated1" /><ref name="scientificamerican1" /> as well as the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra.<ref name="nytimes1" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Stanford-Laptop-Orchestra-makes-music-with-Macs-3262984.php |title=Stanford Laptop Orchestra makes music with Macs – SFGate |publisher=Articles.sfgate.com |date=June 1, 2010 |access-date=November 12, 2011}}</ref>

He is the designer of the Ocarina<ref>{{cite journal |last=Wang|first=Ge|date=2014|title=Ocarina: Designing the iPhone's Magic Flute |journal=Computer Music Journal |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=8–21 |doi=10.1162/COMJ_a_00236|citeseerx=10.1.1.566.5805|s2cid=14050437}}</ref> and Magic Piano iPhone apps. He is currently an associate professor at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).<ref name="autogenerated1" /><ref name="nytimes1" />

== Book == He is the author of ''Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime (A MusiComic Manifesto)'',<ref>{{Cite book|title=Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime (A MusiComic Manifesto)|last=Wang|first=Ge|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2018|isbn=978-1-5036-0052-2|pages=488|url=https://artful.design/}}</ref> a book on design and technology, art and life, created entirely in the format of a photo comic book, published by Stanford University Press in 2018.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}

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== External links == * [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/ Official Website] * [http://chuck.stanford.edu/ ChucK Music Programming Language] * [http://slork.stanford.edu/ Stanford Laptop Orchestra] * [https://www.ted.com/talks/ge_wang_the_diy_orchestra_of_the_future TED talk: "The DIY Orchestra of the Future"] * [https://artful.design/ Book: ''Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime (A MusiComic Manifesto)'']

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Ge}} Category:Chinese computer scientists Category:American musicians of Chinese descent Category:Living people Category:American chief technology officers Category:1977 births Category:Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni Category:Duke University alumni Category:American computer scientists

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