Ge Wang

Ge Wang is an Associate Professor at Stanford University, at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He specializes in artful design and computer music. Ge researches programming languages and interactive software design for music, instrument design, laptop orchestras, expressive design of virtual reality, philosophy of design, and education at the intersection of computer science and music. Ge is the author of the ChucK music programming language, the founding director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk). Ge is also the Co-founder of Smule (reaching over 200 million users), and the designer of the iPhone's Ocarina and Magic Piano. Ge is the recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the author of a radical new book on design, technology, life, and art, called Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime (Stanford University Press, 2018).

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