Elsewhere on my tour of the north-east, I've been helping out this week at the Software Carpentry boot camp at Newcastle university. These events are aimed mostly at postgraduate research students who need to write software for research. They try to provide just enough training in real-world software development techniques to get people started with… Continue reading Software Carpentry
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Open source licences explained
A new article about open source software licences, aimed at audio and music researchers developing their own software: http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/open-source-software-licences-explained If you notice any mistakes, please add a comment here or drop me a line.
Is music recommendation difficult?
My research department works on programming computers to analyse music. In this field, researchers like to have some idea of whether a problem is naturally easy or difficult for humans. For example, tapping along with the beat of a musical recording is usually easy, and it's fairly instinctive—you don't need much training to do it.… Continue reading Is music recommendation difficult?
My first conference paper
With my colleagues Luís and Mark, I've had a paper accepted for the ICASSP 2012 signal-processing conference: http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/icassp-2012-accepted I've previously co-written a journal paper and a couple of posters, and I've done demos, but this is the first conference paper I've ever been the primary author of. (Though it may turn out to be a… Continue reading My first conference paper
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