When Jay LeBoeuf was 10, he begged his parents to buy him an electric keyboard so he could plug it into his Apple IIGS computer and play '80s synth rock. Now LeBoeuf, an electrical engineer with a background in classical piano and a master's degree from Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, wants to turn computers into virtual sound engineers. "A big motivation for me is that computers and mobile devices right now, they're deaf," he says. "They have no idea what's going on." In 2008, LeBoeuf, 34, founded Imagine Research, a startup that on Nov. 9 unveiled its MediaMined software, which enables music and film producers to search, classify, and retrieve all manner of audio files.
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