Judy Brown
Judith "Judy" C. Brown is an American physicist and professor emerita at Wellesley College.[1] She was a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab in the Machine Listening Group for over 20 years, and is recognized for her contributions in music information retrieval, including developing the constant-Q transform.[2][3] She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and has served on the ASA technical committees for musical acoustics and animal bioacoustics.[1]
Judy Brown | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | Rice University University of California, Berkeley |
Known for | Constant-Q transform |
Awards | Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (1999) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics Signal processing Bioacoustics |
Institutions | Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay Wellesley College MIT |
Biography
Brown was born in Teague, Texas and attended Rice University for her bachelor's degree in chemistry.[4] She attended the University of California, Berkeley for her PhD and then spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow in solid state physics at the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay.[2] She then joined the faculty in the physics department at Wellesley College, where she taught the first quantum mechanics course at Wellesley.[1] She joined the MIT Media Lab as a visiting scientist in 1986 to conduct research on computer perception of music and developed classification algorithms for marine mammal sounds.[2] She was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 1999 for her contributions in applying signal processing to musical acoustics, frequency tracking, instrument identification, and spectral analysis.[5] She retired in 2005.[1]
References
- "Judy Brown". Department of Physics. Wellesley College. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- "People-Machine Listening Group". Music, Mind, and Machine Group. MIT Media Lab.
- "Judy Brown's home page". Wellesley College. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- Lieu, Clara (10 August 2012). "Thursday Spotlight: Judy Brown". Art Prof. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- Moran, Elaine (October 1999). "Acoustical News—USA". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 106 (4): 1617–1618. doi:10.1121/1.4734352.