Professor Vercoe was a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Laboratory in 1984, where he has pursued research in Music Cognition and Machine Understanding. His several Music Synthesis languages are used around the world, and a variant of his Csound and  NetSound languages was adopted as the core of MPEG-4 audio—an international standard that enables efficient transmission of audio over the internet. At the Media Lab he directed research in machine listening and digital audio synthesis as head of the Music, Mind, and Machine group, and served as associate academic head of its graduate program in Media Arts and Sciences. 

 NetSound languages has recently been adopted as the core of MPEG-4 audio -- an international standard that enables efficient transmission of audio over the Internet. At the Media Lab he currently directs research in Machine Listening and Digital Audio Synthesis (Music, Mind and Machine group), and is Associate Academic Head of its graduate program in Media Arts and Sciences.