David Cope

Person · Open Library

Born

1941

Died

2025

Works

32

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1941

Active to

2025

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,538

Total plays

14,410

David Cope (b. San Francisco, California, United States, May 17, 1941) is an American author, composer, scientist, and professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His primary area of research involves artificial intelligence and music; he writes programs and algorithms that can analyze existing music and create new compositions in the style of the original input music. His EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence) software has <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/David+Cope">R

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Basic local alignment search tool

   · 1990 · cited 80,005x

2. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 76,915x

3. The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.

   · 1986 · cited 62,913x

4. Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error

   · 1981 · cited 60,755x

5. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

   · 2009 · cited 57,926x

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Quotes

• “Creativity does not originate from a vacuum.”
• “It made me appreciate what humans were capable of.”
• “Every limitation we place on the potential of machines is a limitation we indirectly place on ourselves.”
• “I see no reason why computer-created music cannot move us to tears, find roots in our cultures...as much as any music composed in more traditional ways. As heretical to some as these thoughts may be, I believe them profoundly.”
• “I felt strongly that the work was worth something,” “I don’t worry about what people think of me.””
• ““I remember thinking, ‘I’m not a white person and I’m not an Indian. What am I? Even at that young age, it somehow freed me from following cultural stereotypes. I was me, and it felt very good.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope

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