Bill Moog, the inventor of the electrohydraulic servo valve and is the founder of Moog, Inc.
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Moog created the first modern, realtime playable and reconfigurable music synthesizer in 1963 and demonstrated it at the AES convention the following year.
Moog gave an enthusiastically received public keynote lecture at NIME-04, the international conference on New interfaces for musical expression, held in Hamamatsu, Japan's "City of Musical Instruments", in June, 2004.
Shortly after Bob Moog's death, it was proposed in his honor that the word Moog become the ANSI standard unit for expressing volts per octave.
Moog to a create a business that tied the name Moog as tightly to synthesizers as the name Les Paul is to electric guitars.
Moog walked into an elevator on his way to his Ph.D. defense and immediately became obsessed with the resonant frequency of the elevator: ''Bob started jumping up and down on the floor (and) somewhere between the fourth and fifth floors he hit the right frequency.
Moog took off in rock as extended keyboard solos in songs by Manfred Mann, Yes, and Pink Floyd became part of the progressive sound of the 1970s.
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