Team
Doug Turnbull – Ithaca, NY
Creator – Associate Professor, Ithaca College
April Trainor – Ithaca, NY
Project Manager & Systems Architect – Senior, Ithaca College
Kathryn Miller – Lehigh Valley, PA
Marketing and Outreach Coordinator – Senior, Ithaca College
Elizabeth Richards – Stratford, CT
Frontend Developer – Senior, Ithaca College
Griffin Homan – Marblehead MA
Frontend Developer – Junior, Ithaca College
Victoria Conrad – Natick, MA
Software Developer – Junior, Ithaca College
Cassandra Raineault – Newport, NH
Backend Developer – Junior, Ithaca College
Kieran Bentley – Napaskiak, AK
Backend Developer – Junior, Ithaca College
Paul Gagliano – Warwick, NY
Backend Developer – Junior, Ithaca College
Localify is the brainchild of Doug Turnbull at Ithaca College. It has been designed, developed, and promoted through the efforts of many talented students and colleagues over the past few years.
ALUMS
Emmett Barry (Backend Developer)
Sam Edelstein (Frontend Design & Developer)
Sean Blackford (Playlist Algorithms & Software Engineer)
D’Andre Walker (Frontend Developer)
Tim Clerico (Lead Playlist Algorithm & Backend Developer)
Erich Ostendarp (Backend Developer & Operations)
Connor Shea (UI Designer, Outreach & Branding)
Jon Burger (Initial Concept and Software Engineer)
Daniel Akimchuk (Playlist Algorithms)
Nic Wands (Lead Designer & Frontend Developer)
Vera Crabtree (API, Frontend, and Backend Developer)
John Hunter (Backend Developer & Data Collection)
Lexie Thomas (Outreach & Branding)
Brontë Cook (Local Music Writer & Chief Outreach Officer)
Vianca Hurtado (Front-end Designer & Developer, UX/UI Researcher, User Testing)
CREDITS
Devon Jezek (Voice Actor)
ADVISORS
Thorsten Joachims (Machine Learning Master, Cornell University)
Shane Moore (Software Architecture and Playlist Guide, NY Times)
Will Van Dyke (Digital Music Expert, Warner Music)
Brian Dozoretz (Local Music Guru, Ithaca College)
John Barr (Computer Science Master, Ithaca College)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work is supported by NSF Grants IIS-1217485, IIS-1217686, IIS-1615679, and IIS-1615706, an educational grant from Amazon Web Services, research credits from Google Cloud Platform, and the Ithaca College H&S Summer Scholars Program.