David Cope, Date of Birth

David Cope

American composer and scientist

Date of Birth: 17-May-1941

Profession: composer, artificial intelligence researcher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

David Cope (born May 17, 1941 in San Francisco, California) is an American author, composer, scientist, and former professor of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
His primary area of research involves artificial intelligence and music; he writes programs and algorithms that can analyse existing music and create new compositions in the style of the original input music.
He taught a summer Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music that was open to the public (but not free) as well as a general education course entitled Artificial Intelligence and Music for enrolled UCSC students.
Cope is also cofounder and CTO Emeritus of Recombinant Inc, a music technology company.