Georgina Born's book "Rationalizing Culture" is the story of IRCAM in the 80's told by a socialogist who examined how IRCAM ran, it's structure and heirarchies, and commented on it's problems of communication and organization.

Cleverly, she avoided naming names by using a system of initials to identify people involved. For those reading the book, the system of encoding of the initials is to move the last (family) name of the person to the front, then starting with the first initial, move back 5 letters, move forward 5 with the second, and so on. Thus, Pierre Boulez (PB) becomes BP, the B becomes a W after you move back 5 letters in the alphabet, and the P becomes V, which comes 5 letters later.

Here's a list of the other major players mentioned in the book. Know some names? Drop a line!
Initial in Book Real Name Comments
BU Pepino di Guino 4X hardware director and designer
KR Michel Pillet Low Status service/administrative worker
TY TY again!??? Director in the administration
VO Jean-Pierre Armaud 4X industrialization director
WOW Jean Baptiste Barriere Junior Tutor, ex-Chant and Formes, composer, music research director
WS Norddine Belal Director in the Administration
AV George Benjamin??? Visiting composer on Commission in 1984
HM Steven McAdams Junior Tutor, Psychoacoustician, pedagogy director
HY Tod Machover Music Research Director, composer
ID YN??? Visiting American music software researcher
LK Florence Quillard-Monjal Administrative Assistant
MC Xavier Rodet Chant and Formes project director
NI DS??? Visiting American commercial music technology entrepeneur, composer
RIG David Wessel Pedegogy Director
WL Gerald Bennett Past departmental director, composer
PL George Lewis American composer, Apple II project
BYV Andrew Gerzso 4x software director, Boulez's unofficial tutor
CX Stanley Hayes Past tutor, composer
FOL Jean=Pierre Keller Scientific Director
HU Philippe Manoury Junior Tutor, composer
JDK Yves Pottard O?? Tutor, ex-Chant and Formes
WR Marc Battier Tutor for Stockhausen visit, composer
XU Pierre Cointe Chant/Formes computer scientist
NP Kaija Saariaho Composer-squatter, later commissioned
XH Chris Chaffe Temporary Tutor, American researcher and composer
BW Roger Gross Visiting consultant with Systems team
FA Adrian Freed Systems Manger, systems team director
AJ Emmanuel Favreau 4X signal processing director
FL Gyorgy Kurtag Jr. Squatter, junior tutor, technician, composer
GE Patrick Greussay Squatter, professor of computer science
KF Arnaud Petit Junior Tutor, composer
VR Michel Antin 4X technician
WV Nicholas Snowman Artistic Director
WI David Bristow Yamaha corp. representative