List of Contributors
Jonathan S. Abel is a Consulting Professor at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) in the Music Department at Stanford University, where his research interests include audio and music applications of signal and array processing, parameter estimation and acoustics. From 1999 to 2007, Abel was a co-founder and chief technology officer of the Grammy Award-winning Universal Audio, Inc. He was a researcher at NASA/Ames Research Center, exploring topics in room acoustics and spatial hearing on a grant through the San Jose State University Foundation. Abel was also chief scientist of Crystal River Engineering, Inc., where he developed their positional audio technology, and a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. As an industry consultant, Abel has worked with Apple, FDNY, LSI Logic, NRL, SAIC and Sennheiser, on projects in professional audio, GPS, medical imaging, passive sonar and fire department resource allocation. He holds PhD and MS degrees from Stanford University, and an SB from MIT, all in electrical engineering. Abel is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society.
Xavier Amatriain is Researcher in Telefonica R&D Barcelona which he joined in June 2007. His current focus of research is on recommender systems and other web science-related topics. He is also associate Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he teaches software engineering and information retrieval. He has authored more than 50 ...
