Gil Weinberg, director of the Georiga Tech Center for Music Technology is at the forefront of the cutting-edge research field of robotic musicianship.  His latest marimba-playing robot, Shimon, can listen to and analyze melodic music and improvise with human players, providing visual and social cues to its co-players and audiences.  Shimon has been invited to dozens of concerts world wide and was featured in Georgia Tech’s fall 2010 public service announcement (available at  http://www.gatech.edu/music/).

 Weinberg has been invited to present Shimon and other research from the GTCMT at the 41st annual meeting of  the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, in January 2011.