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   Evan Kirshenbaum wrote:   
   > Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
   > writes:   
   >   
   >>> Auto-Tune.  [...] Interestingly, the Wikipedia article says that   
   >>> the underlying technology was develloped at Exxon for use in   
   >>> interpreting seismic data.   
   >>   
   >> That's suspiciously close to a plot element of _The Hunt for Red   
   >> October_.   
   >   
   > _The Hunt for Red October_ was published in 1984.  Andy Hildebrand,   
   > who later developed Auto-Tune, worked at Exxon in the '70s.  I haven't   
   > read the book, but it's quite possible that the plot element was based   
   > on things that were already possible.   
      
   It's a small world. Andy started developing it in about March 1984 when he   
   was with a startup company called Landmark Graphics in Houston. I was   
   evaluating a product they were developing at the time for interpreting   
   seismic data. They had a couple of very crude maximum picking algorthms, and   
   I found a way of using them iteratively using the output of one as a seed   
   for the next to get a much better result. Andy generalised and rewrote the   
   algorithm to incorporate the iterations in a one-step process. That was the   
   beginning of what eventually became Auto-Tune.   
      
      
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