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 Numerical relativity
Shibata M., World Scientific Publishing Co, Inc., River Edge, NJ, 2015. 850 pp. Type: Book
Last year (2015) was a very good year for physics; it saw both the 100th anniversary of the discovery of general relativity (GR) by Albert Einstein and the first detection on Earth of the gravitational waves (GW) that were one of the k...
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Oct 7 2016 |
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Machine learning for audio, image and video analysis: theory and applications (2nd ed.)
Camastra F., Vinciarelli A., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2015. 561 pp. Type: Book (978-1-447167-34-1)
Machine learning and big data are all the craze these days, seen as key technologies to handle the deluge of data expected to flow from the upcoming Internet of Things (IoT). Multimedia information, transmitted by video encoders or sti...
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Feb 18 2016 |
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Quantum processes systems, and information
Schumacher B., Westmoreland M., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2010. 482 pp. Type: Book (978-0-521875-34-9)
Quantum information and computing (QIC) research intends to harness the intricacies of quantum mechanics, which, according to the authors of this recently released textbook, is “what happens [in physical processes] when nobod...
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Oct 8 2010 |
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Information, physics, and computation
Mézard M., Montanari A., Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY, 2009. 560 pp. Type: Book (9780198570837)
If the potential of interdisciplinary research, which lies at the boundary of two scientific domains, indeed happens to materialize, then research that builds upon three sciences should indeed bring quite fascinating results. M...
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Oct 28 2009 |
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Flow, gesture, and spaces in free jazz: towards a theory of collaboration
Mazzola G., Cherlin P., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2009. 141 pp. Type: Book (9783540921943)
Managing innovation and spurring team creativity while working under constraints are key ingredients for success in today’s industries. Surprisingly enough, there is an artistic domain in which such concerns are also paramoun...
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May 22 2009 |
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From Pac-Man to pop music: interactive audio in games and new media (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
Collins K., Ashgate Publishing Company, Brookfield, VT, 2008. 207 pp. Type: Book (9780754662112)
Even though most of us are not acutely aware of its ubiquitous presence, maybe because our bodies lack “earlids,” we live in a world filled with more and more noise and music. The introduction of sound digitization ...
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Sep 23 2008 |
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Virtual environments for creative work in collaborative music-making
Schober M. Virtual Reality 10(2): 85-94, 2006. Type: Article, Reviews: (2 of 2)
Even if music, as the Internet itself, breathes collaboration, it is only in the last few years that advances in Web technologies, mostly via a significant decrease in communication latency time, have paved the way for long-distance mu...
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Nov 26 2007 |
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Social radio: a music-based approach to emotional awareness mediation
Röcker C., Etter R. Intelligent user interfaces (Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan 28-31, 2007) 286-289, 2007. Type: Proceedings
Communication can sometimes be construed as intrusion, for example, when call recipients do not welcome, for some reason, verbal exchanges at a particular time. Providing mood information among members of connected communities would th...
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Mar 7 2007 |
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ImproViz: visual explorations of jazz improvisations
Snydal J., Hearst M. Human factors in computing systems (CHI ’05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Portland, OR, USA, Apr 2-7, 2005) 1805-1808, 2005. Type: Proceedings
Jazz improvisation is one of the most difficult arts to teach, given the fleeting nature of its one-of-a-kind realizations, exemplified by the musical intuitions of geniuses such as John Coltrane or Thelonious Monk. Studying such maste...
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May 25 2005 |
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Daisyphone: the design and impact of a novel environment for remote group music improvisation
Bryan-Kinns N. Designing interactive systems (Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, Cambridge, MA, USA, Aug 1-4, 2004) 135-144, 2004. Type: Proceedings
Music practice is often seen as a formal activity, requiring a long learning period to acquire both conceptual and instrumental skills. With the advent of new technologies that lower this access barrier, it is possible to envision a mo...
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