| 2009 May 14 (Thursday) |
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On-line reputation -Interview Lars Kai Hansen
Link
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| 2009 May 13 (Wednesday) |
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Politiken Debat: Kulturarven på vej ned i digitalt sort hul? |
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| 2009 January 20 (Tuesday) |
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Denmarks Radio interview on neural networks Link |
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| 2008 June 8 (Sunday) |
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Interview in Jyllandsposten on privacy issues and intelligent search engines. Link to article (requires login). |
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| 2008 March 8 (Saturday) |
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Danish Radio interview with Lars Kai Hansen on brain function and engineering intelligent systems Listen at P1 |
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| 2008 January 15 (Tuesday) |
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ISOUND's Lasse Mølgaard gave an interview on audio search to the premier Danish radio tech magazine Link to Denmarks Radio. |
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| 2007 September 12 (Wednesday) |
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Are the recent Osama statements real? Most likely, however, both video and audio can be faked. Link to Metro Express. |
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| 2007 April 26 (Thursday) |
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Børsen TV interview on the MIRocket at the
opening of Forskningens Døgn Link for streaming TV.
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| 2007 April 12 (Thursday) |
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Fremtidens hjerner. Interview med Lars Kai Hansen i P1 tema. Link. |
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| 2007 January 16 (Tuesday) |
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Mads Christensen laid the foundation of future sound formats. Link |
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| 2006 December 19 (Tuesday) |
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"Web 3.0 Internet der læser dine tanker". Kronik i Berlinske Tidende. Link |
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| 2006 June 25 (Sunday) |
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I rette rille. Politiken søndag 25. juni 2006 om behovet for at søge i lyd. [1,2] |
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| 2006 June 11 (Sunday) |
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Han kortlægger musikkens dna og sælger den på nettet. (Interview i politikken med Tim Westergren, taler ved IMM's lydseminar) |
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| 2006 June 8 (Thursday) |
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Computere skal laere at lytte til musik, Jyllands-Posten, link |
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| 2006 June 2 (Friday) |
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Danskere vil lave lydens Google, Politiken. link |
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| 2006 May 4 (Thursday) |
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Den personlige Juke-BoX, Jyllands Posten |
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| 2006 May 1 (Monday) |
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"Verdenspremiere paa DTU's digitale ansigt" Dynamo-DTU Nr. 5. |
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| 2006 April 3 (Monday) |
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DTU Avisen: "Digitalt ansigt hjaelper hoerehaemmede" |
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| 2006 February 28 (Tuesday) |
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Tue Lehn-Schioeler in TV2 Nyhederne on the project "Talking Faces". |
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| 2005 November 19 (Saturday) |
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Stilhed foer fremtiden, Lars Kai Hansen, Kronik in Jyllands Posten Download |
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| 2009 July 1 (Wednesday) |
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EMMDS 2009. European Workshop on Challenges in Modern Massive Data Sets Technical University of Denmark - July 1–4, 2009. Link |
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| 2009 March 12 (Thursday) |
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Associate prof. Tobias Andersen. Inaugural speech: "Engineering Cognitive Systems". Friday March 13. 14:00-16:00 DTU Building 308, Room 011 |
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| 2008 December 8 (Monday) |
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NIPS 2008. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Link.
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| 2008 September 21 (Sunday) |
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ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on
Statistical And Perceptual Audition SAPA2008. 21 September 2008, Brisbane, Australia. Link.
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| 2008 September 17 (Wednesday) |
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International and
Interdisciplinary Conference on Adaptive knowledge Representation and
Reasoning. Link. |
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| 2008 August 25 (Monday) |
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The 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. 25-29 August 2008, Sapporo, Japan. Link. |
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| 2008 June 24 (Tuesday) |
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The 14th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), IRCAM, Paris, France.. Link. |
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| 2008 June 9 (Monday) |
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The first workshop on Cognitive Information Processing, Santorini, Greece. Link.
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| 2008 June 4 (Wednesday) |
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CANCELLED: NORSIG 2008 Signal Processing Symposium in Copenhagen. Submission deadline Feb 28, 2008. Link. |
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| 2007 December 7 (Friday) |
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"Music, Brain & Cognition" - a two-day workshop
organized as part of the NIPS
Workshops, 7-8 Dec ‘07 Whistler Canada. Link.
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| 2007 December 5 (Wednesday) |
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2nd international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT) - Genova, Italy |
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| 2007 September 3 (Monday) |
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EUSIPCO 2007 15'th European signal processing conference Potnan, Poland. Link for more information. |
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| 2007 August 27 (Monday) |
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International Computer Music Conference.
Venue:Holmen Island in Copenhagen Monday, 27 August to Friday, 31 August. Link
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| 2007 July 23 (Monday) |
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The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 23-27 July 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands link |
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| 2007 July 11 (Wednesday) |
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4th Sound and Music Computing Conference
11-13 July 2007,Greece link |
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| 2007 May 21 (Monday) |
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Third Intelligent Sound Workshop: May 21-23 2007. Venue: Karlslunde Strand Feriecenter |
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| 2007 April 26 (Thursday) |
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Intelligent Sound participates in opening of the national event "Forskningens Døgn".
Link for more information. |
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| 2007 April 11 (Wednesday) |
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Talk by Stefania Serafin Wednesday April 11, 14:00 "Physical models for sound synthesis"
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| 2007 April 1 (Sunday) |
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The IS Toolbox version 2.0 |
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| 2007 March 15 (Thursday) |
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AES: Intelligent Audio Environments Conference, Saariselka, Finland. link |
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| 2007 March 8 (Thursday) |
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Ingemar Cox seminar: "On ranking the effectiveness of searches"
Time and place |
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| 2006 December 20 (Wednesday) |
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Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop Queen Mary University of Londonlink
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| 2006 December 15 (Friday) |
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Deadline for "Special Issue of The IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and
Language Processing on Music Information Retrieval"
link |
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| 2006 December 9 (Saturday) |
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Nips Workshop: Advances in Models for Acoustic Processing link |
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| 2006 December 6 (Wednesday) |
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1st Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS) 2006 link |
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| 2006 December 4 (Monday) |
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Intelligent Sound MIRocket demo at NIPS 2006
link |
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| 2006 November 17 (Friday) |
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Musik og lyd i det offentlige rum link |
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| 2006 November 15 (Wednesday) |
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Beyond The Soundbytes Conference, on the furture of the music market. link |
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| 2006 November 6 (Monday) |
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International Conference on Computer Music, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. Submission deadline March 4, 2005. |
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| 2006 October 27 (Friday) |
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Audio and Music Computing for Multimedia Workshop
in conjunction with ACM Multimedia '06 link |
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| 2006 October 8 (Sunday) |
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ISMIR 2006. Conference from Oct 8 to Oct 12 in Victoria, Canada. link |
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| 2006 September 17 (Sunday) |
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Music, Interactive Conducting, and Machine Learning, A two-week course
link |
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| 2006 September 6 (Wednesday) |
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MLSP 2006 conference in Maynooth, Ireland, from Sep 6 to Sep 8. link |
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| 2006 August 18 (Friday) |
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PhD course on MIR in Aalborg link |
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| 2006 August 14 (Monday) |
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PhD course at DTU: Approximations in machine learning |
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| 2006 July 24 (Monday) |
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Summer School in Sound and Music Computing
Pompeu Fabra University
Barcelona, Spain July 24-28 link |
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| 2006 July 17 (Monday) |
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Music and Consciousness, Sheffield link |
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| 2006 July 1 (Saturday) |
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Deadline for sound search engine demo |
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| 2006 June 19 (Monday) |
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ICAD. The 12th International Conference on Auditory Display, June 19-24, London, UK link |
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| 2006 June 8 (Thursday) |
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One day seminar on audio information processing at DTU |
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| 2006 June 7 (Wednesday) |
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Peter Ahrendt will defend his phd thesis: "Music Genre Classification Systems – A Computational Approach" |
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| 2006 June 6 (Tuesday) |
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Anders Meng will defend his phd thesis: "Temporal feature integration for music organisation" |
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| 2006 May 22 (Monday) |
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Intelligent Sound project workshop |
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| 2006 May 20 (Saturday) |
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AES 120th Convention, May 20-May 23, in Paris, France, link |
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| 2006 May 14 (Sunday) |
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ICASSP 2006, Tolouse in France, May 14-19, 2006. link |
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| 2006 April 17 (Monday) |
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Paper submission deadline for ISMIR |
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| 2006 April 1 (Saturday) |
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Deadline for first version of MATLAB toolbox |
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| 2006 March 27 (Monday) |
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Simon Haykin is giving a talk: "Self-organized adaptive processor for solving the cocktail party problem" at DTU, Building 321, Room 053. |
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| 2006 March 5 (Sunday) |
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ICA 2006 in Charleston, South Carolina, March 5-8, 2006 link |
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| 2005 November 28 (Monday) |
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CIMCA 2005, Vienna, Austria link |
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| 2005 September 11 (Sunday) |
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ISMIR 2005 in London, 11 - 15 September 2005. |
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| 2005 August 15 (Monday) |
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Inaugural Workshop for Intelligent Sound Project in Korsør, August 15 - August 18, 2005. |
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| Saturday, April 11 2009 |
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Universal and Youtube to launch new video music site |
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From the press release:"...Doug Morris, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s leading music company and Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer of Google Inc., today announced that UMG and YouTube, a Google subsidiary, are working together to launch VEVO, a music and video entertainment service that will feature UMG’s premium video content." The time horizon appears to be a few months.
Article at AllthingsDigital.
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| Wednesday, March 25 2009 |
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Google going semantic |
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Tueasdy Google announced two improvements to the results pages. The first is "semantic" associations in multiple languages, the second a more extensive text snippet particularly relevant for long queries, see the Google blog for more details.
(lkh) |
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| Sunday, March 22 2009 |
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Twitter turning three and still no tweedle dee... |
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Fast growing group sms service Twitter turns three Sunday afternoon (Pacific time). Happy birthday! Twitter is unborn when it comes to audio, it is the boring sound of silence. You can fool around with colors and imagery, but still no mixer in the settings. TechCrunch birthday salute. (lkh) |
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| Friday, March 20 2009 |
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Digital music accounted for 33% of 2008 sales |
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The Alex Moskalyuk IT Facts blog reports 2008 digital music usage figures and more. The total music sales was down as "...Purchases of online digital music downloads increased by 29% since 2007; they now account for 33% of all music tracks. There were nearly 17 mln fewer CD buyers in 2008 compared to 2007".
Blog post. The original announcement of the analysis by the NPD group further states: "...Consumers’ primary reason for not purchasing CDs was that they were spending less on entertainment overall, because of the recession". NPD group. Further in the IT Facts blog "How on-line music buyers find out about new music?".
(lkh) |
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| Thursday, March 12 2009 |
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Voice of Google |
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The GrandCentral voice-over-IP provider was acquired by Google some years ago, since we have waited for voice features to appear in Gmail. Now finally it seems to appear as featured in this article in TechCrunch.
The service will be Skype-like with added features like transcription of voice messages. Hope to get that button installed soon! (lkh) |
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| Wednesday, March 11 2009 |
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Google turning evil? |
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One of the giants early "do not be evil" promises was to only use search history for generic improvements in search quality. This Wired article comments on the recent change in strategies at Google towards more direct behaviorally targeted adds.
(lkh) |
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| Sunday, December 28 2008 |
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A digital pledge from John Lennon |
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The voice and a small video clip of John Lennon as been recreated as a pledge for donations to the one-laptop-per-child project. See the video at Youtube.
(lkh) |
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| Thursday, November 20 2008 |
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The blogosphere |
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A technical issue has kept the isound blog down for a while, but it has now been fixed and we are happy to welcome back our readers. (kbp) |
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| Thursday, November 20 2008 |
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Muzeeker at WMMP 2008 |
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Intelligent Sound's Muzeeker. Wikipedia powered music search engine is presented at WMMP 2008., The First International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Processing which is held in conjunction with The 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008).
The paper: "MuZeeker a domain specific Wikipedia-based search engine" by S. Halling, M. Sigurdsson, J. Eg Larsen, S. Knudsen and L.K. Hansen, has specific focus on the mobile interface. (lkh) |
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| Thursday, July 10 2008 |
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Yahoo's BOSS enables small specialized search engines |
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With the announcement of BOSS Yahoo provides a search infrastructure (datacenter, crawl, index etc) for folks with great search ideas but limited capital. The new BOSS is a rebranding of the SearchMonkey (Ouch!) "open search" service. The hope is that a new small cap search engine market can develop to become a serious add market. Link to Yahoo Blog.
(lkh) |
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| Sunday, June 29 2008 |
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ISOUND at Stanford |
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 The 2008 workshop on Modern Massive Data Sets (MMDS 2008) took place at Stanford University June 25-28. The workshop was attended by over 250 researchers from academia and industry. The workshop was sponsored by NSF, Yahoo and Linked-In and more. Jerome Friedman (Stanford) presented his new GPS path algorithm for sparse least squares estimation. Michael Mahoney (Yahoo) presented new community statistics for very large social networks, "whisker" like structures (close nit communities with few links to core) seem to be prevalent. Link to workshop site. Presentations will available as pdf. (lkh) |
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| Tuesday, June 17 2008 |
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Science and music |
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The journal Nature features a series of essays on music. In "The neural roots of music" Laurel Trainor reviews neurological aspects of music: "...Music is built on general, universal features of human sound processing that have deep evolutionary roots. It also incorporates rhythmic,
melodic and harmonic structure. Musical structures
and styles vary enormously across cultures, and change as continually as languages, yet our biology constrains the possibilities". Link to Nature.
(lkh) |
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| Sunday, June 8 2008 |
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Wikipedia based Muzeeker in pre-beta |
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Muzeeker is ISound's music search engine with Wikipedia intelligence. The search engine maps user queries to articles and categories in the English Wikipedia. Once an artist or song is identified a query is issued for Youtube allowing the user to explore new music. The Muzeeker team includes Søren Halling, Magnus Sigurdsson and Lars Kai Hansen. Link to Muzeeker. (lkh) |
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| Saturday, May 31 2008 |
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Affective audio-visual computing |
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 PhysOrg reports on a new paper by Yongjin Wang from the University of Toronto and Ling Guan from Ryerson University in Toronto. In contrast to earlier work they fuse audio and visual data for cross-language emotion detection and they "...have developed a system that recognizes six human emotional states: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. Their system can recognize emotions in people from different cultures and who speak different languages with a success rate of 82%". Affective computing will allow search engines to index emotional valence.
Link to PhysOrg report. (lkh) |
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| Sunday, May 25 2008 |
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More from behind the walls of Gogol |
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In Anand Rajaraman's blog "Datawocky" he recounts a discussion with Peter Norvig, head of research at Google. It is claimed that Google does'nt use machine learning methods to make decisions about ranking although they work as well as "hand-tuned formula". Apparently the reason is the risk that machine learning could show not robust to unseen outliers. I find this unlikely in lieu of the recent posting by Udi Manber which we referred to yesterday. If it is true that Google has an online quality control system running (at the minute scale...supposedly checking that users make the predicted click-trough) then there is no reason not to use the algorithm that perform better in the present market - with the possibility to switch to a more robust hand-tuned formula if the market swings? A part from this issue we learn other interesting facts, such that Google keeps a 200 parameter characteristic of each web page, one parameter being the PageRank Link to datawocky.
(lkh) |
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| Saturday, May 24 2008 |
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From inside Google Search Quality |
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Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality has posted a interesting comment at the Google blog on the mechanics of their ranking. Days are long gone when PageRank was responsible for Google's high quality ranking. Localization, automated quality control, and web spam filtering are now part of the complex ranking system: "...There are automated evaluations every minute". Manber estimates that more than 1000 engineering man years have gone into developing the ranking system, and promises that he will reveal more details in the future.... Link to blog.
(lkh) |
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| Sunday, May 4 2008 |
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Can audio CAPTCHAs work? |
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There is an interesting discussion going on about Google's use of audio CAPTCHAs. CAPTCHA is short for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". You have most likely met image CAPTCHAs when subscribing to services. CAPTCHAs are used to avoid bots to invade systems like Hotmail, Gmail etc. To help visually impaired Google started using audio CAPTCHAs in 2006. However, in the Wintercore Labs blog ( Link to blog.) Rubén Santamarta provides simple Fourier based tools for hacking Google's audio CAPTCHA. Is the game on? Like in imaging, I expect that audio experts will take the opportunity to develop safer audio CAPTCHA.
(lkh) |
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| Sunday, April 13 2008 |
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Radiohead takes music interactivity to a new level |
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By letting users buy individual tracks (bass, drum, vocal) and allowing users to remix and re-distribute Radiohead is breaking new ground in music usage and interactivity. Read more at Wired's Listening Post. You can enjoy user contributed remix, vote for your favourites and get links for mash-up applications at the Radiohead site. (lkh) |
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| Sunday, April 13 2008 |
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Cognitive component paper accepted at Cognitive Science Conference |
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The paper "Is Cognitive Activity of Speech Based On Statistical Independence?" by Ling Feng and Lars Kai Hansen has been accepted for presentation at CogSci 2008 - The 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Link to pdf.
(lkh) |
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| Sunday, April 13 2008 |
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Paper accepted at Cognitive Information Processing Workshop |
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 The paper "On Phonemes as Cognitive Components of Speech" by Ling Feng and Lars Kai Hansen has been accepted for presentation at the 1st IAPR Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing Santorini 2008. Link to pdf.
(lkh) |
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| Saturday, April 5 2008 |
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Myspace = MiTunes? |
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In an expected move, three of the big four music companies (Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group Corp and Universal Music) have entered a partnership with MySpace, so that it will be possible to buy DRM free music through MySpace. Link to analysis at eFluxMedia. (lkh) |
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| Thursday, March 27 2008 |
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NYT: Scott de Martinville first recorded sound on April 9, 1860 |
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New York Times reports that an audio recording of "Au Clair de Lune" made in 1860 by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville has been re-constructed and that "...David Giovannoni, an American audio historian who led the research effort, will present the findings and play the recording in public on Friday at the annual conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif."
Thomas Edison's first recording of "Mary had a little Lamb" was made seveteen year later in 1877. Link to NYT. (lkh) |
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