Apple | Mobile |
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Business Dev & Design Entertainment | Social Media Tech Web Video |
Apple | Mobile |
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Business Dev & Design Entertainment | Social Media Tech Web Video |
Operates as a music website.
Year Established: | 6/05 |
Funding: | 1.31 |
Address: | Somerville, MA 02144 |
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Mail: | contact@echonest.com |
Company URL: | http://www.echonest.com |
The Echo Nest is a technology and research-focused music intelligence startup based in Somerville, MA (Davis Square). We provide music information services to developers and partners through our large data mining and machine listening platform that both listens to and reads about the entire world of online music. Our current development projects involve large scale internet data mining, machine learning, DSP optimization, and music and video analysis and synthesis.
The Echo Nest offers an excellent benefits and vacation package. Please mail us at jobs2010@echonest.com. If you fit a position, someone from EN will get back to you as soon as possible. We're sorry, but the volume of applications makes it impossible for us to reply to every application.
Commonwealth Capital Ventures,Undisclosed Firm
Tristan Jehan, Ph.D. (Co-Founder & CTO)
Tristan earned a doctorate in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT in 2005. His academic work combined machine listening and machine learning technologies in teaching computers how to hear and make music. He first earned an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Rennes in France, later working on music signal parameter extraction at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at U.C. Berkeley. He has worked with leading research and development labs in the U.S. and France as a software and hardware engineer in areas of machine listening and audio analysis. Tristan plays keyboards for Boston-based Brazilian combo Brazilnut and builds software and interactive projects for musicians.
Brian Whitman, Ph.D. (Co-Founder & CTO)
Brian is recognized as a leading scientist in the area of music and text retrieval and natural language processing. He received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 in Machine Listening and a masters degree in Computer Science from Columbia University's Natural Language Processing Group. His research links community knowledge of music to its acoustic properties to "learn the meaning of music." Brian is an electronic musician that teaches computers how to do it for themselves.
Jim Lucchese (CEO)
Jim is the CEO of The Echo Nest. Jim has worked in digital music strategy and corporate development for about 10 years. Before The Echo Nest, Jim was a music lawyer at Greenberg Traurig, specializing in music and digital media deals. Clients included multi-platinum and independent artists, music publishers, digital entertainment companies and branded entertainment. Prior to GT, Jim held sales and corporate development positions at Hughes, where he managed market development and sales with annual revenues exceeding $20 Million. Jim was also Chief Strategy Officer of Webnoize/DMN, a digital entertainment research and advisory company serving over 500 clients. Jim holds a B.A. from Boston College and a J.D., Magna Cum Laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center. When he