Godfried Toussaint
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Godfried T. Toussaint is a computer scientist, a professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University Montreal, Canada since 1972. He is an expert in various aspects of computational geometry and its applications: pattern recognition, motion planning and others. Other interests include instance-based learning, music information retrieval, and computational music theory.[1]
He has been editor and associate editor of a number of scientific journals.
He is an author and namesake of the efficient "Akl-Toussaint algorithm" for the construction of the convex hull of a planar point set.
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[edit] Mathematical research in music
In February 2005 he became a researcher in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology in the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. His application of mathematical methods for tracing the roots of Flamenco[2] were covered in numerous publications in several languages.[3]
[edit] Awards
In 1978 he was the recipient of the Pattern Recognition Society's "Best Paper of the Year Award". In 1985 he was awarded a two-year Killam Senior Research Fellowship by the Canada Council. In 1996 he was awarded the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society's "Service Award" for his "outstanding contribution to research and education in Computational Geometry." In May 2001 he was awarded the David Thomson Award for excellence in graduate supervision and teaching at McGill University.[4]
[edit] Books and book chapters
- G. T. Toussaint, Editor, Computational Geometry, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1985.
- G. T. Toussaint, Editor, Computational Morphology, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1988.
- J. O'Rourke and G. T. Toussaint, "Pattern recognition," Chapter 51 in the Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, Eds., J. E. Goodman and J. O'Rourke, Chapman & Hall/CRC, New York, 2004, pp. 1135-1162.
- J. O'Rourke and G. T. Toussaint, "Pattern recognition," Chapter 43 in the Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, Eds., J. E. Goodman and J. O'Rourke, CRC Press, New York, 1997, pp. 797-813.
[edit] References
- ^ G. Toussaint profile at the McGill University
- ^ J. Miguel Diaz-Banez, Giovanna Farigu, Francisco Gomez, David Rappaport, Godfried T. Toussaint, "El Compas Flamenco: A Phylogenetic Analysis", Proc. BRIDGES: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science, Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas, July 30 - August 1, 2004, pp. 61-70.
- ^ "Flamenco Forensics", McGill Reporter, January 26, 2006.
- ^ G. Toussaint home page