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And the Grammy Goes to — a Mathematician?

Mathematician Kevin Short shared in a Grammy award recently for his work in restoring "The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949." Short's work on compression and chaos was used to help adjust the speed and timing in the original recording, improving pitch and clarity.

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