Please welcome Ichiro Fujinaga, Associate Professor of Music Technology at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, as he presents two talks sponsored jointly by The Harrison Institute, the McIntire Department of Music, and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

Professor Fujinaga will deliver his first address, “Music Notation and ‘Big Data,’” at Rice Hall, Room 242, on Oct. 1 at 4:30 p.m. His second presentation, “10 Years of Innovation in Music Digitization & Dissemination,” will be held in Old Cabell Hall, Room 107 at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 2. Both events are free and open to the public.

Ichiro Fujinaga earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music/Percussion and Mathematics from the University of Alberta, and his Master’s degree in Music Theory, and Ph.D in Music Technology, from McGill University. His research interests focus on optical music recognition, lazy learning (exemplar-based learning), digital signal processing, music information retrieval, pattern recognition, music perception, digital history, and language acquisition.