Digital Humanities Seminar: Computational Musicology: Music, Minds, Machines and Meaning

Speaker: Geraint A. Wiggins, Queen Mary, University of London
UCL Contact: Lynette Hothi (Visitors from outside UCL please email in advance).
Date/Time: 15 Mar 12, 13:30 - 14:30
Venue: J Z Young LT

Abstract

Geraint A. Wiggins

Geraint A. Wiggins is Professor of Computational Creativity at Queen Mary, University of London. He studied mathematics and computer sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and holds PhDs from the University of Edinburgh in Artificial Intelligence and in Musical Composition. His research career has specialised in generality, covering computational linguistics, computational logic, computational modelling of music perception and cognition, and computational creativity. He was one of the founders of the computational creativity research area, and is the founding chair of the international Association for Computational Creativity. From 2000-2004, he chaired the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, the UK learned society for AI and Cognitive Science. He is an associate editor of Musicae Scientiae, the journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, a consulting editor of Music Perception, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of New Music Research.