David Rosenthal

I got my Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab in 1992; I spent a couple of years in Japan at the International Media Research Foundation, did some consulting for a while, and am now at Kurzweil Applied Intelligence in Waltham.

I'm interested in the computational modeling of perception, particularly auditory and musical perception. People and Web pages that relate to that in various ways include:

The Computational Auditory Scene Analysis Workshop
Media Lab Machine Listening Group
Dan Ellis, Alan Ruttenberg, and I recently wrote a paper called Pushing Up Hypotheses Using Context-Dependent Links. It's a pretty good summary of the kinds of things I've been doing lately.
Dan also maintains the AUDITORY page.
Masataka Goto is an awesome hacker doing sound- and rhythm-understanding research at Waseda University.
IPUS is a cool project at the
Distributed AI Lab at UMass,
Frank Klassner is one of the people working on it.
Victor Lesser heads the lab.
Tom Knight does lots of interesting stuff, including sound understanding.
One application of machine sound understanding is Multimedia Indexing and Retreival
Scott Mainwaring maintains a list of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences on the Internet

In January, 1994 I co-chaired a workshop on computational perception near a place called Kanazawa, on the west coast of Japan. Several Media Lab and MIT AI Lab people participated. Here's a pointer to Hypertext Abstract Perception Workshop Proceedings

Here's a postscript version: Postscript APW Proceedings

Interesting Web-related stuff:

Cyrus Shaoul maintains a terrific web page.
I've never met Nelson Minar but he's nevertheless a hero of mine, since he wrote an emacs mode for creating HTML documents, which enabled me to pound out the APW Proceedings in only two days.

David Rosenthal, dfr@media.mit.edu