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Max Vernon Mathews (* November 13, 1926, in Columbus, Nebraska) was a pioneer in the world of computer music. He studied electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a Sc.D. in 1954. Working at Bell Labs, Mathews wrote MUSIC, the first widely-used program for sound generation, in 1957. For the rest of the century, he continued as a leader in digital audio research, synthesis, and human-computer interaction as it pertains to music performance. Although he was not the first to generate sound with a computer (an Australian CSIRAC computer played tunes as...

* Born 1924, The Hague, the Netherlands One of the stalwart band of jazz accordionists. Mathews caught the jazz bug listening to broadcasts of American Armed Force Radio after World War Two. Working with the only instrument he knew, he started imitating solos Harry James, Coleman Hawkins, and others on his accordion. He was good enough to get work in nightclubs and other venues, and within a few years, was touring throughout Europe. In 1952, he moved to the U.S., where he supplemented his club work with appearances on television variety shows such as Garry Moore's, Jack Paar's, and Arthur...

Jake Mathews is a Canadian country artist who has enjoyed great success at radio with numerous top 20 hits and has received several Canadian Country Music Award nominations. Having toured throughout Canada, Jake has also had the opportunity to take his music to an international stage. In recent years he has performed in Korea, Japan, New York, London, Berlin and Australia. He released his album titled “Red Tail Lights” in July of 2011 and the first single “If I Had It My Way” was one of the TOP 5 most played songs of the year and spent 36 weeks on...