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ISMIR
2002
3rd International Conference on
Music Information Retrieval
IRCAM – Centre
Pompidou
Paris, France
October 13-17, 2002
KEYNOTE AND INVITED
SPEAKERS
The
following people have confirmed their acceptance to speak at ISMIR 2002.
Chris Barlas
Senior Consultant, Rightscom Ltd
Special Keynote Session on Metadata:
“Beating Babel - Identification, Metadata and Rights”
Chris Barlas has nearly twenty years experience of rights
management for publishers and authors. As leader of the European Commission
backed Imprimatur project he gained an extensive knowledge of Internet based
IPR protection and trading. He was also actively involved with several other
successful EC projects, including <indecs>, the fundamental analysis of
metadata interoperability. For many years he served as a non-executive
director of the Copyright Licensing Agency and is a member of the editorial
board of Copyright World.
Since
joining Rightscom, Chris has become a key influencer in the international
eBook environment and is chairman of the Open eBook Forum Systems Group.
Chris has also forged close working relationships with major technology
companies in relation to digital rights management issues, particularly in
addressing the needs of all parties in the value chain. He presents
Rightscom's DRM Survival Kit Seminar and manages the <indecs>2rdd
rights data dictionary initiative.
Leonardo
Chiariglione
Vice President, Multimedia of Telecom Italia Lab
Special Keynote Session on Metadata:
“Technology and Art – Putting Things in Context[Abstract1] ”
Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione, a national of Italy, is Vice President,
Multimedia of Telecom Italia Lab, the Corporate Research Centre of the
Telecom Italia Group. In February 1999, he was appointed Executive Director
of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), charged with developing
technical specifications for secure digital delivery of music, position he
held until March 2001.
Dr.
Chiariglione originated and chairs the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG),
the ISO standardization group which produced the MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4
standards that support digital audio-visual applications on diverse delivery
systems. Dr. Chiariglione also originated the Digital Audio-Visual Council
(DAVIC), the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) and the EURASIP
journal "Image Communications".
Dr.
Chiariglione obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, and graduated
in Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin.
Dave Datta
Vice-President Technology, All Media Guide
Special Keynote Session on Metadata:
“Managing Metadata[Abstract2] ”
Mr. Datta has a bachelor's degree in Computing Science from
the University of Wisconsin-Parkside
and a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science from the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He was formerly Assistant Director of Academic
Computing and Networking at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Mr. Datta
is one of the pioneers of music information on the Internet. During his tenure at Parkside, he created
and maintained the "University
of Wisconsin-Parkside Music archives", the first Music information
archive on the Internet, which included
the well known "UWP Lyrics Archive". These archives
were available via Gopher and FTP
from 1989 to 1997 when he moved to the All Media Guide (AMG). AMG is the
leading business-to- business provider of entertainment descriptive content
and content management technology.
AMG also hosts a network of award winning websites on music (www.allmusic.com), movies (www.allmovie.com), and games (www.allgame.com).
Harriette Hemmasi
Associate Dean of the Libraries and Director of Technical Services, Indiana University. Project Investigator, Digital Music Library Project, Indiana
University
Special Keynote Session on Metadata:
“Why not MARC[Abstract3] ?”
Ms. Hemmasi earned a bachelor's degree in music from Baylor
University, a master's degree in music from Indiana University, Bloomington,
and a master's in library and information science from University of
California, Berkeley. She is a member of the ALA ALCTS Directors of
Large Research Libraries Technical Services Directors, RLG Strategy Focus
Group, and a past member of the ALA SAC Subcommittee on Form
Headings/Subdivisions Implementation and SAC Subcommittee on Subject
Relationship/Reference Structures. Ms. Hemmasi also maintains an active
role in the Music Library Association as director of the Music Thesaurus
Project, chair of the MLA Form and Genre Working Group for the Music
Thesaurus, former chair of the MLA Subject Access Subcommittee and former MLA
representative to the ALA Subject Analysis Committee.
Ms.
Hemmasi has authored several articles on subject access and enhanced end user
searching, with particular emphasis on form and genre access and the Music
Thesaurus Project. She has given numerous presentations on these topics,
both nationally and internationally. In addition to her administrative
duties at IU, Ms. Hemmasi serves on the research team of the NSF-funded
Digital Music Library grant, with a primary focus on developing metadata
specifications and improved searching capabilities for web-based resources.
Douglas Hofstadter
College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science, Adjunct
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, Comparative
Literature and Psychology, Indiana University
Opening Keynote Speech:
“Variations on the Theme of Musical Similarity[Abstract4] ”
Douglas Hofstadter is College of
Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana University,
Bloomington, where he is also Director of the Center for Research on Concepts
and Cognition. In addition, he is a professor in several departments, ranging
from Computer Science to Psychology and Comparative Literature.
His first book, "Gödel, Escher, Bach:
an Eternal Golden Braid", won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
in 1980. Aside from his pioneering work in cognitive science and the
philosophy of mind, Hofstadter has done research that has had a wide impact
in theoretical physics, has done work in various areas of mathematics, has
written about and composed music, has created many idiosyncratic types of
visual art, has been deeply involved for many years in poetry translation and
other creative types of translation, has made noteworthy contributions to our
awareness of the pervasive sexism in our society, especially in the American
language -- and there are yet other areas that could be mentioned.
One of Douglas Hofstadter's lifelong
passions is to explore and characterize the many unconscious cognitive
mechanisms that collectively underlie human creativity (to which he
incidentally prefers the term "discoverativity") -- and indeed, the
fact that Hofstadter's major focus in cognitive science is human creativity
makes perfect sense for the precise reason that he is himself a genuine
innovator and creator in many diverse fields, ranging from art to science to
literature.
Hofstadter's own dozen-word
self-characterization is that he is someone who is "forever in love with
and in search of deep and hidden beauty".
Eric Scheirer
Media technology researcher, Bose Corporation
Special Keynote Session on Metadata:
“About this Business of Metadata[Abstract5] ”
Dr. Eric Scheirer is a prominent researcher and business analyst
with a broad perspective on the world of multimedia. His technical research
on the compression, synthesis, perception, and retrieval of sound is internationally
recognized, and he also has detailed understanding of business and technology
trends in the media industry.
Dr.
Scheirer received B.A. degrees from Cornell University and his S.M. and Ph.D.
from the MIT Media Lab. While at MIT, he served as an Editor of the
MPEG-4 Audio International Standard and led the technical development of the
groundbreaking MPEG-4 Structured Audio and MPEG-4 AudioBIFS standards.
Dr.
Scheirer has a broad range of interests. He has published dozens of
technical papers centering around the general theme of applying perceptual
and signal-processing models to problems in musical multimedia. Two of
his current interests include the development of the new technique of
generalized audio coding, and the use of novel psychoacoustic methods to
create musically intelligent search and retrieval algorithms.
From
2000 until early 2002, Dr. Scheirer was a media-industry analyst at Forrester
Research, a leading market research and technology consulting firm. In that
position, he studied technology trends in the entertainment industry, wrote
in-depth reports assessing opportunities and making business recommendations,
and assisted Forrester's media-industry clients in developing technology
strategies.
He
has recently joined the Bose Corporation, where he leads a new
technology-strategy initiative.
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