Mes Souhaites

So, I'm lining up summer plans and looking to do something music informatics.

One of the front runners for places I would like to end up is at Sun interning with Project Aura (which is a meld of Sun's Search Inside the Music and Advanced Search Technology).

I had a phone interview earlier this week and one of the questions was the specific areas I'm interested in investigating. I attempted a literatue survey and discovered the field of MIR is large and active. As I was contemplating the question of the most interesting parts last night, I remembered a list of MIR research blogs.

I'm realizing the extent to which the internet is growing to play a role in certain areas of research. My adviser was saying it can take up to a year to get a paper from submission to publication. Blogs in particular let a community of researchers keep up with each other. From reading the MIR blogs, I can't imagine a researcher really being current in the field without paying at least a little bit of attention to them.

I've been wanting to set up a feed aggregator. I figured why not use this as an opportunity to deepen my relationship with my gracious electronic overlord. So far I've been pretty happy with Google Reader. I understand blogging a bit better both as a community building tool, but also as a medium for communication.

I have a bit on blogs, MIR and technologists, but I'm going to split it out into another entry…