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Audience was founded in 2000 by Lloyd Watts, a neuroscientist who studied with the physicist Carver Mead of the California Institute of Technology.
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Before founding Audience, which is based in Mountain View, California, Watts was a member of a group of technologists at Interval Research, a Silicon Valley research company backed by Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft.
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The Audience technology can be traced to work Watts began as a graduate student working in a laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.There, he designed a chip that modeled the human cochlea, the snail-like organ in the inner ear that converts vibrations into electrical signals that are perceived by the brain as sound.