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24th Annual Wolfram Summer Research Institute

Bentley University, Waltham, MA June 28–July 18, 2026

Alumni

Rian Shams

Technology and Innovation

Class of 2017

Bio

Rian Shams is a systems science PhD candidate at Binghamton University, New York. His research interests include machine intelligence and computational creativity. In addition, he is a functional programming enthusiast with some experience using various Lisp dialects (such as Scheme, Racket and Clojure), as well as the Wolfram Language.

Computational Essay

A Musical Keyboard »

Project: An Intelligent Musical Keyboard

Goal of the project:

Build an interactive musical keyboard that is able to generate music using hierarchical temporal memory to learn the sequential and spatial structure of sounds.