Gerhard Widmer
(c) FWF/Hans Schubert, 2010
CURRENT POSITIONS
TEACHING (in German)
RESEARCH
Research
Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
- Knowledge Discovery in Databases / Data
Mining / Text Mining
- Intelligent Music and Audio Processing
- Computational Models of Expressive Music
Performance
- Music Information Retrieval (MIR)
Publications
Invited Speaker at
- 2001:
12th
European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'2001), Freiburg,
Germany
- 2001: 8th Brazilian
Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM'2001), Fortaleza, Brazil
- 2001: 9th Spanish
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA'2001), Gijón,
Spain
- 2002: ESCOM
Conference on Musical Creativity 2002, Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Creativity, Liège, Belgium
- 2002: 13th
International
Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT'02) and
2002:
5th
International
Conference on Discovery Science (DS'02), Lübeck, Germany
- 2002:
15th European
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'02), Lyon, France
- 2003: 3rd decennial
Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference (SMAC'03), Stockholm, Sweden
- 2003:
AT21 Gala,
Graz, Austria
- 2004:
AT21 Gala, Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna
- 2004: First Central
European International Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference,
Veszprém, Hungary
- 2005: 22nd International
Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005) and
2005: 15th International Conference
on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2005) , Bonn, Germany
- 2006:
18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and
Systems Research (EMCSR 2006), Vienna, Austria
- 2007:
Science Impact - Rethinking the Impact of Basic Research on
Science and the Economy
(organized by
FWF and
European Science Foundation),
Vienna, Austria:
Closing event:
"The Beauty of Basic Research: Computers Explore
Musical Expressivity"
(
video)
- 2008:
1st International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology
(SysMus08), Graz, Austria
-
2009:
18th International Symposium
on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2009),
Prague, Czech Republic
-
2009:
21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09),
Pasadena, CA, USA
RECENT AND CURRENT PROJECTS
- 2000-2003 - Austrian National Science
Foundation (FWF):
A
New Modular Architecture for Data Mining
- 2001-2002 - EU 5th FP, IST Project:
3D
Ontology-based Web Search Application (3D Search)
SCIENTIFIC SERVICES
Organization of Conferences and Workshops
- Local chair (jointly with Igor Mozetic) of
the
- 6th European Conference on
Machine
Learning (ECML-93),
Vienna
- Programme Chair (jointly with Maarten van
Someren) of the
- (Co-)Organizer and (co-)chair of
the following workshops:
- ECAI-92 Workshop on
Artificial
Intelligence and Music,
10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-92), Vienna
- IJCAI-95
Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Music, International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), Montreal, Canada
- ICML-96
Workshop on Learning in Context-Sensitive Domains, 13th
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-96), Bari, Italy
(jointly with Miroslav
Kubat)
- AAAI-2000 Workshop
on Artificial Intelligence and Music, 17th
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2000), Austin,
Texas (jointly with William Birmingham
and Roger B. Dannenberg)
- IJCAI'03
Workshop on Methods for Automatic Music Performance and their
Applications in a Public Rendering Contest, 18th Joint International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'03), Acapulco, Mexico
- Austria's Delegate to the Management
Committee of the
- Co-Organiser and Co-Chair of the
Editorial Services
- Member of the Editorial/Advisory
Board of
- Guest Editor (jointly with Miroslav Kubat) of
a
- Guest Editor of a
Recent and Current Service on Programme Committees
18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008),
Patras, Greece
1st International Conference on Advanced Intelligence (ICAI-08),
Beijing, China
11th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS-2008),
Szeged, Hungary
9th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR
2008),
Philadelphia, PA, USA
6th European Workshop on Evolutionary
and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design
(EvoMUSART), Naples, Italy
Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval 2008 (CMMR'2008),
Copenhagen, Denmark
International Conference on Computational Science 2008 (ICCS 2008),
Krakow, Poland
6th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2009),
Porto, Portugal
15th International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2009),
Sophia Antipolis, France
7th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music,
Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2009),
Tübingen, Germany
18th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems
(ISMIS'09), Prague, Czech Republic
21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09),
Pasadena, CA, USA
2nd International Conference on Mathematics and Computing in Music
(MCM 2009),
New Haven, CT, USA
12th International Conference on Discovery Science
(DS 2009),
Porto, Portugal
8th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music,
Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2010),
Istanbul, Turkey
MISCELLANEOUS
Awards, Prizes, Honours
- 1974: First Prize, National
Piano
Competition, Federal
State
of Vorarlberg
- 1984-86: Fulbright Scholarship
(to Univ. of Wisconsin,
Madison, USA)
- 1997: Kardinal Innitzer
Research
Award
("Kardinal-Innitzer-Förderungspreis")
- 1998: START Research Prize
by
the Austrian Federal
Government; comes with large six-year research
grant (EUR 872.000,-) for the project Computer-Based
Music Research: Artificial Intelligence Models of Musical Expression.
Some articles about this in the public media:
- 2002: Förderungspreis
des Landes Vorarlberg für
Wissenschaft
- 2004: Best Paper Award,
15th European
Conference on Machine Learning
(ECML'2004), Pisa, Italy, for the paper "Using
String
Kernels to Identify
Performers from their Playing Style" by C. Saunders, D. Hardoon,
J.
Shawe-Taylor, & G. Widmer.
-
2006: Elected
ECCAI Fellow
by the
European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence
-
Since 2008: Member of the "Junge Kurie" of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences
-
Aug. 2008: Our expressive music performance rendering system
YQX
wins the
Rencon Award, the Rencon Technical Award, and the Rencon Murao Award
at the 7th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems
(RENCON '08)
in Sapporo, Japan.
Listen to the
results.
-
Oct. 2009:
Wittgenstein Prize
(Austria's highest funded research award, comes with a five-year grant of
EUR 1,5 million)
Reports on our Research in
the Media
... and my Erdös Number :-)
3 (through
John Shawe-Taylor)
last edited by gw on
2009-05-01