The Geometry of Musical Rhythm: What Makes a Good Rhythm Good?, Second Edition

About Godfried T. Toussaint

Godfried T. Toussaint is a Canadian computer scientist born in Belgium. Presently he is a Research Professor of Computer Science at the University of New York Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory a Researcher in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) in the Schulich School of Music at McGill University and an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at McGill. After receiving a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada he taught and did research at the School of Computer Science at McGill University in the areas of information theory pattern recognition pattern analysis and design computational geometry instance-based learning music information retrieval and computational music theory. In 1978 he received the Pattern Recognition Societys Best Paper of the Year Award and in 1985 he was awarded a Senior Killam Research Fellowship by the Canada Council. In May 2001 he was awarded the David Thomson Award for excellence in graduate supervision and teaching at McGill University. He is a founder and cofounder of several international conferences and workshops on computational geometry. He is an editor of several journals has appeared on television programs to explain his research on the mathematical analysis of flamenco rhythms and has published more than 360 papers. In 2009 he was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for the 20092010 academic year to carry out a research project on the phylogenetic analysis of the musical rhythms of the world. After spending an additional year at Harvard University in the music department he moved in August 2011 to New York University in Abu Dhabi.