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'''Julius Orion Smith III''' is an American professor emeritus of music and, by courtesy, electrical engineering at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).<ref name="stanford">{{cite web |title=Julius Smith – Stanford Profiles |url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/julius-smith |website=Stanford University |access-date=27 June 2025}}</ref>
'''Julius Orion Smith III''' is an American professor emeritus of music and, by courtesy, electrical engineering at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).<ref name="stanford">{{cite web |title=Julius Smith – Stanford Profiles |url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/julius-smith |website=Stanford University |access-date=27 June 2025}}</ref>
He is best known for pioneering '''digital waveguide synthesis''', an efficient physical-modelling technique that underlies many modern software and hardware synthesizers.<ref name="wired94">{{cite magazine |last=Ressner |first=Jeff |title=Wave of the Future |magazine=Wired |date=March 1994 |url=https://www.wired.com/1994/03/waveguides |access-date=27 June 2025}}</ref>{{fv}}
He is best known for pioneering '''digital waveguide synthesis''', an efficient physical-modelling technique that underlies many modern software and hardware synthesizers.<ref name="wired94">{{cite magazine |last=Ressner |first=Jeff |title=Wave of the Future |magazine=Wired |date=March 1994 |url=https://www.wired.com/1994/03/waveguides |access-date=27 June 2025}}</ref>{{fv}}


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Julius O. Smith III
Born
Julius Orion Smith III
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRice University (B.Sc., 1975)
Stanford University (Ph.D., 1983)
Known forDigital waveguide synthesis
AwardsFellow, Acoustical Society of America (2003)
Fellow, Audio Engineering Society (2008)
Scientific career
FieldsDigital signal processing; music technology
InstitutionsStanford University (CCRMA)
Thesis Techniques for Digital Filter Design and System Identification with Application to the Violin  (1983)
Websiteccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/

Julius Orion Smith III is an American professor emeritus of music and, by courtesy, electrical engineering at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).[1] He is best known for pioneering digital waveguide synthesis, an efficient physical-modelling technique that underlies many modern software and hardware synthesizers.[2][failed verification]

Education

Smith earned a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Rice University in 1975 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1983; his doctoral dissertation was entitled Techniques for Digital Filter Design and System Identification with Application to the Violin.[1]

Career

After completing his doctorate, Smith joined Stanford’s faculty and co-founded CCRMA’s signal-processing programme. From 1987 to 1992 he worked at NeXT Computer, where he developed music- and audio-software components for the NeXTSTEP operating system.[1]

He became a full professor in 1996 and was appointed professor emeritus in 2009. Smith has held visiting positions at Yamaha, IRCAM, and Helsinki University of Technology, collaborating frequently with Finnish acoustician Matti Karjalainen.

Research

Smith’s work focuses on physical modelling of musical instruments, time-frequency audio processing, and digital filter design. His open-access textbook series—including Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform with Audio Applications and Physical Audio Signal Processing—is widely used in graduate curricula.

Honours

  • Fellow, Acoustical Society of America (2003)[1]
  • Fellow, Audio Engineering Society (2008)[1]

Selected works

  • Smith, Julius O. (1983). Techniques for Digital Filter Design and System Identification with Application to the Violin (Ph.D. thesis). Stanford University.
  • Smith, Julius O. (2007). Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT): With Audio Applications. W3K Publishing.
  • Smith, Julius O. (2007). Introduction to Digital Filters: With Audio Applications. W3K Publishing.
  • Smith, Julius O. (2010). Physical Audio Signal Processing: For Virtual Musical Instruments & Audio Effects. W3K Publishing.
  • Smith, Julius O. (1992). "Physical Modeling Using Digital Waveguides". Computer Music Journal. 16 (4): 74–91. doi:10.2307/3680725.
  1. ^ a b c d e "Julius Smith – Stanford Profiles". Stanford University. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  2. ^ Ressner, Jeff (March 1994). "Wave of the Future". Wired. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
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