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@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ <h2 id="braun-talk"><b>09:30:</b> <a href="#braun">David Braun</a> — Machine L
 
       <h2 id="puckette-talk"><b>10:00: </b><a href="#puckette">Miller Puckette</a> — PureData and AI</h2>
 
-      <p>More details soon...</p>
+      <p>Almost twenty years ago Davide Morelli introduced Pure Data bindings for the FANN machine learning library.  The resulting Pd objects include a multi-layer perceptron object, ann_mlp, that can train and/or run MLPs natively on standard machine architectures (Intel or ARM).  In this talk I'll give a demo of how to use ann_mlp to train additive synthesis models either to imitate existing sounds or to allow low-dimensional interpolation of user-supplied synthetic sounds. This work was inspired by work by Wessel and Lee from the 1990s, and also more recent work by Sam Pluta.</p>
 
       <h2 id="betancur-talk"><b>11:20: </b><a href="#betancur">Celeste Betancur</a> — (X)AI in Live Coding Environments: Pandora’s Dream</h2>
 
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       <h2 id="puckette">Miller Puckette</h2>
 
-      <p>More details soon...</p>
+      <p>Miller Puckette is known as the creator of the Max and Pure Data real-time computer music software environments.  As an MIT student he won the Putnam mathematics competition in 1979.  He received a PhD from Harvard University in 1986.  He was a researcher at the MIT Media lab from its inception until 1986, then at IRCAM (Paris, France, where he is now a visiting researcher), and is distinguished professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.  He has been a visiting professor at Columbia University and the Technical University of Berlin, and has won two honorary degrees, the SEAMUS award, and the 2023 Silver Lion of the Venice Biennale Musica.</p>
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+      <p>Puckette has performed widely in venues including Centre Acanthes, Carnegie Hall, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the Ojai Music festival, Ars Electronica, and a cistern beneath Guanajuato, Mexico.  His installation, Four Sound Portraits, was shown at the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale.</p>
 
       <h2 id="betancur">Celeste Betancur</h2>