# Maya Ackerman
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Margareta (Maya) Ackerman is a Russian-American computer scientist known for her research in cluster analysis and algorithmic composition of music. She is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Santa Clara University, and the founder and CEO of algorithmic music firm WaveAI.
== Early life and education ==
Ackerman was born in the Soviet Union. She moved with her family to Israel in 1990, when she was seven years old, and five years later moved again to Canada.
296 - Guest: Maya Ackerman, Creative AI Pioneer, part 2
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One of the great wounds people are experiencing around AI is in creativity. Look at the writers’ and actors’ strikes, for example. I continue talking about this very sensitive subject with Maya Ackerman, author of the new book Creative Machines…
Beethoven and AI Agents with Matthias Röder
Matthias is an internationally recognised expert at the intersection of creativity, leadership, and artificial intelligence.
He was the Director of the Karajan Institute and led the team that used AI to complete Beethoven’s 10th Symphony. He is also a trained Classical Guitarist, Musicologis…
Maya Ackerman Interview Episode 635
In this episode, AI pioneer and author Maya Ackerman discusses her book Creative Machines: AI, Art & Us and the rapidly evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and human creativity. We explore whether machines can truly create, how AI is reshaping artistic fields, and what this techno…
Steal This. The AI Creator Has No Rights. The Supreme Court Won't Even Look.
The quiet golden womb of the butterfly, hanging on a branch, leaving the old caterpillar form and assuming a new one. I love that transformation.
Me shifting into AI me? That’s scary, because I can’t see it. Only that sour taste in the stomach of being passed by remains, a feeling I know too w…
How Can Creatives Manage a World with AI
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Maya Ackerman, PhD | Creative Machines, AI in Music & Art, AI History, LLMs, Bias, Psychology
Ellis Malmgren is joined by Dr. Maya Ackerman, a globally renowned expert in the field of generative AI, the author of Creative Machines: AI, Art, & Us, and CEO/co-founder of WaveAI. Dr. Ackerman has been researching and developing innovative generative AI models for text, music, and art since 2014…
Take Five: Highlights from Five Years of the Music Thinking Podcast
We are celebrating a major milestone! Exactly five years ago, on the 19th of May, The Power of Music Thinking podcast was launched.
To mark the occasion, host Christof Zürn revisits the archives to share hidden gems, profound insights, and incredible sonic journeys from the past five years. Based …
Abstract Essay (Season Five): Human Creativity Meets Artificial Intelligence — A Conversation with Maya Ackerman
Abstract Essay, in its fifth season, features Maya Ackerman—AI pioneer, CEO, and professor—as a distinguished guest, bringing a rare blend of academic rigor, entrepreneurial leadership, and visionary insight into the evolving world of artificial intelligence. This episode explores the intersection …
Inside the Black Box
Composer Mark Henry Phillips logs onto an AI music generator expecting slop. Instead... he has an existential crisis. What it made wasn't slop -- it was good. Really good. This plunges him into a year-and-a-half long rabbit hole. He discovers -- with help from Sonarworks' Helmuts Bēms -- that profe…
Light Box, from sound designer Mark Henry Phillips
From Passenger List sound designer Mark Henry Phillips, Light Box — a season-long investigation into what AI is doing to music and the people who love it. What happens when a machine can do the thing you thought made you, you?
Composer Mark Henry Phillips logs onto an AI music generator expecting …
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