- Rory Lewis
Rory Adrian Lewis,
scientist ,poet andphilosopher . Rory Lewis has aBachelor of Science in Computer & Electrical Engineering fromSyracuse University ('93), aJuris Doctor in Law from Syracuse University Law School (1996) and aPh.D. inComputer Science ,Information Technology . He defended his Thesis Knowledge-Discovery in Databases at theUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte under the direction of Professor Zbigniew Ras D. Sc. (Habilitation ), Ph.D.Lewis research in
Computational Mathematics contributes to the fields ofMusic Information Retrieval ,Facial recognition ,Knowledge discovery and theoreticalpredicate calculus inPhilosophy .Early years
Born and raised in
Durban ,South Africa , Lewis attended Penzance Primary and later [http://www.kingedwardschool.co.za/ King Edward The VIIth] , inJohannesburg . After moving toLos Angeles , he ran for the Santa Monica track team under Joe Douglas. After failing to make the 1986 Olympic Trials for the800 metres , Lewis enrolled into Pierce Los Angeles Community College. He enteredMontana State University in 1989 and later transferred toSyracuse University where he graduated in 1993 with a BS in Computer &Electrical Engineering , in 1997 withJuris Doctor fromSyracuse University College of Law and in 2007 aPhD inComputer Science with a focus onInformation Technology .Musical career
While at Syracuse, Lewis' became popular on the
New York City /Buffalo music circuit. After graduating from law school, he moved toCharlotte, North Carolina . Within a yearClearchannel pegged Lewis to open forJerry Lee Lewis in 1998. Local radio stations and politicians invited Lewis to play at functions. Next, "Billboard " ranked Lewis two slots belowEminem in [http://www.rorylewisband.com/docs/06_photos/2001_2004/slides/Rolling%20Stone%20Charts%202001.html Rolling Stone Magazine] and he topped theMySpace charts for downloads.Professional career
In 2000, Lewis ended stopped
patent law litigation and began aPh.D. inComputer Science . Close to a million persons have read and commented on Rory's poem, "The Reluctant Republican".Lewis has presented at the 2005 Intelligent Information Systems conference in
Gdansk ,Poland [http://ftp.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/iis/iis2005.html] , and at the 16th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems in Bari, Italy, on September 27-29, 2006 [http://www.di.uniba.it/~ismis2006/schedule.html] .Lewis' journals are to date:
* [http://www.rorylewis.com/docs/papers/Journals/01_Knowledge%20Discovery%20Based%20Identification%20of%20Musical%20Pitches%20and%20Instruments%20in%20Polyphonic%20Sounds.pdf "Knowledge Discovery Based Identification of Musical Pitches and Instruments in Polyphonic Sounds"] , Lewis, R., Zhang, X., Ras, Z. W., International Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, 2006.
Lewis' publications are to date:
* [http://www.mir.uncc.edu/docs/papers/10_Rules%20for%20Processing%20and%20Manipulating%20Scalar%20Music%20Theory.pdf "Rules for Processing and Manipulating Scalar Music Theory."] , Lewis, R., Z.W. Ras, in "Proceedings of the IEEE CS International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2007)", in Seoul, Korea, April 26-28, 2007.
* [http://www.rorylewis.com/docs/papers/Conferences/06_Multi-way%20Hierarchic%20Classification%20of%20Musical%20Instrument%20Sounds.pdf "Multi-way Hierarchic Classification of Musical Instrument Sounds"] , A. Wieczorkowska, Z.W. Ras, X. Zhang, Lewis, R., in "Proceedings of the IEEE CS International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2007)", in Seoul, Korea, April 26-28, 2007
* [http://www.rorylewis.com/docs/papers/Conferences/05_Blind%20Signal%20Separation%20of%20Similar%20Pitches%20and%20Instruments%20in%20a%20Noisy%20Polyphonic%20Domain.pdf "Blind Signal Separation of Similar Pitches and Instruments in a Noisy Polyphonic Domain"] , Lewis, R., Zhang, X., Ras, Z. W., "The 16th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems", Proceedings of ISMIS'05 Symposium, Bari, Italy, LNAI, Springer-Verlag, vol.4203, 2006.
* [http://www.rorylewis.com/docs/papers/Conferences/01_Creating%20Reliable%20DB%20Extracting%20Emotions%20.pdf "Creating Reliable Database for Experiments on Extracting Emotions from Music"] , A. Wieczorkowska, P. Synak, R.A. Lewis, Z.W. Ras, in Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining, Advances in Soft Computing, Proceedings of the IIS'2005 Symposium, Gdansk, Poland, Springer, 2005, 395-404.
* [http://www.mir.uncc.edu/docs/papers/02_Extracting%20Emotions.pdf "Extracting Emotions from Music Data"] , A. Wieczorkowska, P. Synak, R. Lewis, Z.W. Ras, in "Foundations of Intelligent Systems", Proceedings of ISMIS'05, M.-S. Hacid et al. (Eds.), Saratoga Springs, New York, LNAI, No. 3488, Springer, 2005, 456-465.
* [http://www.rorylewis.com/docs/papers/Conferences/03_New%20methodology%20of%20facial%20recognition,%20Part%20I.pdf “New methodology of facial recognition, Part I”] , R. A. Lewis , Z. W. Ras, in Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining, Advances in Soft Computing, Proceedings of the IIS'2005 Symposium, Gdansk, Poland, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
* [http://www.rorylewis.com/docs/papers/Conferences/04_New%20methodology%20of%20facial%20recognition,%20Part%20II.pdf “New methodology of facial recognition, Part II”] , R. A. Lewis , Z. W. Ras, in Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining, Advances in Soft Computing, Proceedings of the IIS'2005 Symposium, Gdansk, Poland, Springer-Verlag, 2005.ee also
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Artificial intelligence
*Fuzzy logic
*Machine learning
*Predictive analytics
*Statistics
*Predicate Calculus
*Information Technology External links
* [http://www.mir.uncc.edu/ Music Information Retrieval] at
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
* [http://www.rorylewis.com/ rorylewis.com] - personal website
* [http://www.rorylewisband.com/ rorylewisband.com] - personal website
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