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Kurt Jacobson is a senior knowledge engineer at The Echo Nest.
Previously he worked on his PhD at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary Univesity of London where he contributed to the field of music information retrieval by developing new data models for similarity. He was particularly interested applying Linked Data technology to music search and recommendation. To this end, he spent lots of time co-maintaining the DBTune website.
He has also been known to create music and DJ under the moniker of Kurtis Random. More recently he has been a pivotal force in the creative resurgence of the C4DM Presents artist collective where he has conceived, implemented, and contributed to a number of projects.
At one point, he made this pretty picture of the Echo Nest artist space:
