Rock N Roll Meets Higher Math

'Wake up, Polansky. And get out of my classroom until you can stay awake!"
Sixteen year-old Larry Polansky, local rock and roll hero, woke up, but he never went back to his Algebra class

Today this same bearded composer and guitarist has helped take the first step in the creation of artificial intelligence for music-the Hierarchical Music Specification Language.
He and his colleagues at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College call this computer operating system a "mobile laboratory for musical experiments." Their long-term goal: artificial intelligence programs to create music.