Julius Smith
Julius O. Smith III | |
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| Born | Julius Orion Smith III 1953 (age 72–73) |
| Alma mater | Rice University (B.S., 1975) Stanford University (M.S., 1978; Ph.D., 1983) |
| Known for | Digital waveguide synthesis Shazam audio fingerprinting Closed-form spatial localization Windowed-sinc sampling-rate conversion Sines+noise additive synthesis |
| Awards | Fellow, Acoustical Society of America (2003) Fellow, Audio Engineering Society (2008) Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecturer (2006) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Digital signal processing Music technology Computer music |
| Institutions | Stanford University (CCRMA) NeXT Computer (1986–1991) |
| Thesis | Techniques for Digital Filter Design and System Identification with Application to the Violin (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gene F. Franklin |
| Website | ccrma |
Julius Orion Smith III (born 1953) is an American educator and engineer who is Professor Emeritus of Music and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He is known for pioneering digital waveguide synthesis, a physical modeling technique adopted in commercial instruments such as the Yamaha VL-1 synthesizer. Smith is also co-inventor of the core audio-fingerprinting algorithm behind the music-identification service Shazam.