{"55765":{"#nid":"55765","#data":{"type":"profile","title":"Gil Weinberg","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGil Weinberg is the founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, where he established the M.S. and Ph.D. programs in music technology. \u0026nbsp;He is a professor in the School of Music and an adjunct professor in the School of Interactive Computing. Weinberg\u0027s research aims at expanding musical expression, creativity, and learning through meaningful applications of technology. His research interests include robotic musicianship, new instruments for musical expression, mobile music, and sonification. During his tenure at Georgia Tech, he has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers and seven patent applications. Based on his recent inventions - a set of musical applications that allow novices to create music in expressive and intuitive manner - he is has founded a startup company - ZOOZ Mobile - whose products have been downloaded by close to two millions users.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Weinberg\u0027s music has been featured in festivals and concerts such as Ars Electronica and SIGGRAPH, and with orchestras such as Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the National Irish Symphony Orchestra, and the Scottish BBC Symphony. His interactive musical installations have been presented in museums such as the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum and the Boston Children\u0027s Museum. With his improvising robotic musicians, Haile and Shimon, he has traveled world wide, featuring dozens of concerts and presentations in festivals and conferences such as SIGGRAPH, DLD, and the World Economic Forum in Davos. Weinberg received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and his bachelor of arts degree from the Interdisciplinary Program for Fostering Excellence in Tel Aviv University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/gil-weinberg-cv-2011-gtcmt.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESee full CV\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27369","created_gmt":"2010-05-14 11:09:14","changed_gmt":"2014-12-11 16:32:46","author":"Erin Howe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","extras":[],"hg_media":{"354831":{"id":"354831","type":"image","title":"Gil Weinberg 2014","body":null,"created":"1449245743","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:15:43","changed":"1475895084","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:24","alt":"Gil Weinberg 2014","file":{"fid":"202026","name":"weinberg_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/weinberg_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/weinberg_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":216481,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/weinberg_0.jpg?itok=pF-k8J7L"}}},"media_ids":["354831"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1227","name":"School of Music"},{"id":"60381","name":"CMT - Center for Music Technology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[{"id":"10333","name":"Center for Music Technology"},{"id":"10318","name":"Full"},{"id":"9301","name":"School of Music"}],"classification":["Faculty"],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":{"work":"4048948939"},"contact":[],"email":["gilw@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}