Amazon's Former Chief Scientist Joins MusicStrands as Chief Strategist

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Amazon's Former Chief Scientist Joins MusicStrands as Chief Strategist

Barcelona, Spain and Corvallis, Ore., United States, Wednesday, April 13, 2005 -- (Business Wire India) -- MusicStrands, the music discovery company, announced today that Dr. Andreas Weigend, formerly Chief Scientist at Amazon.com, has joined MusicStrands as Chief Strategist (www.MusicStrands.com).

Weigend will guide MusicStrands' product strategy in personalized music search, recommendation, and discovery, leveraging the collective intelligence of music aficionados around the world. Weigend brings to the company a global perspective on user behavior and an exceptional track record of creating algorithms for consumer products.

"MusicStrands will transform the way people discover and enjoy music, and the way people share their musical taste," says Weigend. "Using MusicStrands is like blogging and tagging, making it trivially easy for individuals to express their tastes and ideas. I am excited to be working with a great team of artificial intelligence and data mining experts including Tom Dietterich, Francisco Martin, Jon Herlocker, and Mark Torrens."

Dr. Francisco J. Martin, founder and CEO of MusicStrands, comments that Andreas "has tremendous knowledge and insight into user behavior in digital entertainment that will benefit the user experience in MusicStrands and will play a key role in helping us to build an industry-leading company."

MusicStrands creates innovative software and services integrating cutting edge search, recommendation, personalization, visualization, and statistical modeling, enabling a powerful music search and discovery experience for its users.

Biography of Andreas Weigend, Chief Strategist of MusicStrands

Dr. Andreas Weigend's past experience includes: former Chief Scientist of Amazon.com, co-founder of MoodLogic and strategic consultant for leading companies in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He teaches at Stanford University and executive courses in China. His career as a scientist and business innovator enables him to successfully bridge the gap between industry and academia.

As Amazon.com's Chief Scientist, he directed research in data mining, customer behavior, and social network analysis. Until 1999, he was full-time faculty at New York University's Stern School of Business. He has published more than one hundred scientific papers and six books, and received an IBM Partnership Award and a National Science Foundation Career Award.

He studied physics, electrical engineering, and philosophy in Germany and Cambridge (UK), and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He was a researcher at Xerox PARC and at the Santa Fe Institute.

CONTACT:

MusicStrands
Gabriel (GABR.BO, news) Aldamiz-echevarria, +34-93-586-41-89
Aldamiz@MusicStrands.com
Mobile: +34-667-600-742
www.musicstrands.com

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