There’s a big science festival this week at Imperial College:
the Imperial Festival.

There’ll be “hands-on demonstrations, music, comedy, dancing and art”, and: “Food and drinks are available throughout, just drop in at any time.”

I’ve been involved…

A few months ago I disabled comments on my site — it was just so annoying to get all that spam. Now I’ve started them again, with a simple captcha, but my guess is that I’m going to get fed…

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In the current Science Special Online Collection: Dealing with Data Peter Fox and James Hendler write of visualisation as an “exploration tool allowing scientists to form better hypotheses in the continually more data-intensive scientific process”. In my daily work…

I’ve recently arrived in London and I’m looking forward to showing you the lyrics-to-audio alignment work I did with Hiromasa Fujihara and Masataka Goto at AIST in Japan. My talk will give a short introduction to the underlying technology and…

Matlab, I have to say it, is fabulous. This may be controversial, but I’d like it not to be. Matlab is a programming language for trying stuff out, prototyping, and research. I’m aware of some alternatives, and I do use…

I’m a researcher in music information retrieval, and I will tell you about the software tools I use, hoping that you will be able to read about some you might not have heard of. None of the tools I use…