Harvey M. Friedman, president and founder of Instant Pleasure Technologies Inc., is a mathematics professor with an international reputation in the mathematics, philosophy, computer science and music communities. Friedman founded the company in order to allow anyone to engage in expressive music performance with the help of inexpensive computer technology.
Friedman is the 1984 recipient of the Alan T. Waterman Award given annually by the National Science Foundation to one American 35 or younger chosen from all areas of science and engineering. He was cited for "his revitalization of the foundations of mathematics, his penetrating investigations into the Godel incompleteness phenomena, and his fundamental contributions to virtually all areas of mathematical logic."
Friedman's innovative work with the Bosendorfer 290 SE reproducing piano received extensive coverage in the January 1991 issue of Musical America. Friedman is an accomplished amateur classical pianist.
