| Website | variogr.am |
| Blog | notes.variogr.am |
| @bwhitman | |
| Birthplace | Hillsdale, NJ |
| Columbia University, MS | 2001 |
| Computer Science | |
| MIT, PhD | 2005 |
| Media Arts & Sciences |
Brian is recognized as a leading scientist in the area of music and text retrieval and natural language processing. He received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 in Machine Listening and a masters degree in Computer Science from Columbia University’s Natural Language Processing Group. His research links community knowledge of music to its acoustic properties to “learn the meaning of music.” Brian is an electronic musician that teaches computers how to do it for themselves.
