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LucianoEstebanNotarfrancesco

Email: mailto:luciano@core-sdi.com and if it doen't work mailto:luciano2@mail.ru.
Luciano Esteban Notarfrancesco.

Luciano Notarfrancesco (b. 1975, Buenos Aires, Argnetina) is an active Squeaker. He currently lives in San Diego, CA.

He have great interest on speech related topics, such as speech synthesis and speech reasembly. Take a look at the project Squeak Speaks, that includes an implementation of a Klatt formant synthesizer. He have been applying Linear Predictive analysis to speech compression (LPC and RPELTP), speech modification and music synthesis.

He's also interested in implementing synthetic characters, facial and body gestures synthesis and avatars in Squeak. Take a look at the Gesture and Narrative Language Group http://gn.www.media.mit.edu/groups/gn/ and the Synthetic Characters Group http://characters.www.media.mit.edu/groups/characters/ at the MIT Media Lab.

Currently he's working on physical models of musical instruments.

Luciano have worked with Gerardo Richarte in the creation of MorphicWrappers.

He's part of MathMorphs http://www.dm.uba.ar/MathMorphs and member of SUGAR (Smalltalk User Group of Argentina) http://www.sugarweb.com.

He likes music (Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Bobby McFerrin, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Astor Piazzolla, Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Ayers, Eddie Harris), movies (Brazil, Blade Runner, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, 12 Monkies, Soylent Green, Dark City, EL Dia de la Bestia), and literature (Borges, Chesterton, Ballard, Stevenson, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, Conan Doyle, Poe, Philip K. Dick).