François Pachet
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François Pachet
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January 10, 1964 France, Sainte-Adresse |
| Residence | Paris |
| Nationality | French |
| Institutions | Sony CSL-Paris, 6rue Amyot, 75006 Paris |
| Patrons | Sony CSL |
| Education | Pierre and Marie Curie University |
| Known for | Continuator, Flow Machines |
| Influenced | Artificial intelligence, Music, Audio |
| Notable awards | ECCAI in 2014, best paper award in 2002: The Continuator: Musical Interaction with Style |
François Pachet (born 10 January 1964) is a French scientist, director of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris since 2014. He is one of the pioneers of computer music closely linked to artificial intelligence, especially in the field of machine improvisation and style modelling. He has been elected ECCAI Fellow in 2014.
Pachet received his French Baccalaureate in 1981, at Lycée Montaigne in Paris. In 1981 he started Math Sup/ Math Spé 2-years formation at Lycée Turgot and Lycée Janson de Sailly and was accepted at École des ponts ParisTech from which he graduated in Civil Engineering, and Computer Science in 1987, majoring Applied Mathematics. A year after he went to Kuala Lumpur in the University of Malaya to be a professor. Then from 1992 to 1993 he attended Pierre and Marie Curie University where he got a Master (DEA) in Artificial Intelligence, his music teacher was David Wessel (University of California, Berkeley); and a PhD in Computer Science, (His thesis was "Knowledge representation with objects and rules: the neopuss system", he was supervised by J-F.Perrot). He moved to Montréal for a year to study a Post-doc at Université du Québec à Montréal, graduated in Artificial Intelligence. In 1997, he got his research Advisor Diploma on the thesis subject: "Object-oriented languages and knowledge representation" at University Pierre et Marie Curie. During the 58th national session of Institut des Hautes Etudes en Défense Nationale, in 2006 he was appointed Auditor by the French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and Colonel since September 2007 in the "réserve citoyenne" (french Air Force).
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