Jeremy Weinberger

• Computer Science Ph.D. student
• Preferred Imperial Shoeshiner
• Last Fishmonger in the 24th Battalion

Special Topics in Multimedia page.

Liberty

Teaching

I have been a TA for

• Internet and Intranet Protocols and Applications: Spring 03, Spring 04
• Data Communications and Networks: Fall 03, Fall 04

Long ago, I taught ISP 101 Computing Applications at Northwestern University.

Research Interests

• High-Performance computer music - Many non-real-time audio computations could be in the reach of a real-time system with the appropriate signal processing and systems work. Heavily Fourier-based filter graphs and 3D positioning calculations are CPU-bound processes that would benefit from careful model reduction and/or parallelization.
• Virtual Instruments - We have not yet discovered good mappings for gestural control to be used as an instrument, instead of as a toy. A good virtual instrument could also use a 3D visualization component to provide additional feedback to the musician. Possible projects include an extension of McAdams timbre space to a playable system. We can also identify that just about every likes to pretend to conduct when they hear an orchestra or air guitar to the radio. How about a system that lets you conduct your own virtual orchestra? We could also derive an empirical user pitch space to let everybody play virtual air guitar.
• Audio Rendering - As with graphical rendering, run a simulation of the propagation of sound within a space. A primary application is to provide for 3D sound when the viewer moves in a virtual world. One could also produce a view of what is heard by other characters within the same world. A moderately-sized cluster would provide enough cycle time to do such a simulation. Systems work to provide soft real-time behavior would also be needed.
• Sound Design for Virtual Environments - What cues are needed to make a world more convincing? What audio behaviors are needed? Cues such as audio distortion, damping, and the Doppler effect provide us contextual information that is largely absent from current simulations.
• Granular Synthesis - Is it possible to write a high-level description that can be used algorithmically to produce a requested signal at the micro scale? Can we write high-level composition tools that produce output compilable to millisecond-level specifications? We should be able to have a single computer instrument that is capable of sounding like any instrument from one moment to the next.
• Wavelet processing of audio - What advantages are afforded by processing in the wavelet domain? Can we eliminate some artifacts of Fourier domain transformations? Can we think of new transformations in this domain?

Publications

• Joe Mambretti, David Lillethun, John Lange, Jeremy Weinberger. Optical Dynamic Intelligent Networks: An Experimental Control Plane Architecture for High Performance Distributed Environments Based on Dynamic Lightpath Provisioning. To appear in a special issue of IEEE Communications Magazine on optical control planes, March 2006.
• R. Grossman, Y. Gu, D. Hanley, X. Hong, J. Levera, M. Mazzucco, D. Lillethun, J. Mambretti, J. Weinberger, Photonic Data Services: Integrating Path, Network and Data Services to Support Next Generation Data Mining Applications, Next Generation Data Mining (NGDM'02), Proceedings, November 2002. Also published as a chapter in Data Mining: Next Generation Challenges and Future Directions, H. Kargupta, A. Joshi, K. Sivakumar, Y. Yesha (eds.). AAAI Press / The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2004, pp. 89-104.
• Robert L. Grossman, Yunhong Gu, Dave Hanley, Xinwei Hong, Jorge Levera, Marco Mazzucco, Dave Lillethun, Joe Mambretti, Jeremy Weinberger. A Case for the Global Access to Large Distributed Data Sets Using Data Webs Employing Photonic Data Services, IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems 2003: (April), 62-66.
• Joe Mambretti, Jeremy Weinberger, Jim Chen, Elizabeth Bacon, Fei Yeh, David Lillethun, Bob Grossman, Yunhong Gu, Marco Mazzuco. The Photonic TeraStream: Enabling Next Generation Applications Through Intelligent Optical Networking at iGRID2002, Future Generation Computer Systems, 19(6), August 2003, 897-908.
• Robert L. Grossman, Yunhong Gu, Don Hamelburg, Dave Hanley, Xinwei Hong, Jorge Levera, Dave Lillethun, Marco Mazzucco, Joe Mambretti, Jeremy Weinberger. Experimental Studies Using Photonic Data Services at iGrid 2002, Future Generation Computer Systems, 19(6), August 2003, pp. 945-955.
• T. DeFanti, M. Brown, J. Leigh, O. Yu, E. He, J. Mambretti, D. Lillethun, J. Weinberger, Optical Switching Middleware for the OptIPuter. IEICE Transactions on Communications, invited paper in special issue on Photonic IP Network Technologies for Next Generation Broadband Access. Vol. E86-B, No. 8, pp. 2263

Collaborations

• Wael Ashmawi, Roch Guerin, Stephen Wolf, Margaret Pinson. On the impact of policing and rate guarantees in DiffServ networks: a video streaming application perspective, in: Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications, ACM Press, pp. 83-95.
• Leon Gommans, Cees de Laat, Bas van Oudenaarde, Arie Taal. Authorization of a QoS Path based on Generic AAA, Future Generation Computer Systems, 19(6), August 2003, pp.1009-1016.

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