[Asis-l] ISMIR 2002 Preliminary Program

[Michel Fingerhut]

[This annoucement is crossposted to several mailing lists. Apologies for
duplicate reception]

        ISMIR 2002 - 3rd International Conference
              on Music Information Retrieval
                http://ismir2002.ircam.fr/
                   October 13-17, 2002
          Ircam - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

              Honorary Chair: Pierre Boulez
        Opening Keynote Speaker: Douglas Hofstadter

Annoucements
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- The ISMIR 2002 Program Committee is glad to announce that the full
preliminary program, including the list of selected papers and
posters/short papers, as well as the tutorials and panels, is now
available on the Web site of the conference.

- An optional free professional visit to the sites of the Inathèque de
France (indexation of audiovisual legal deposited documents and related
research) and the audiovisual department of the French National Library
(collection, preservation and access to ca. 1 million audiovisual
documents) is open to delegates on a first-come first-serve basis.

- The social events have been announced, and include a gala dinner
aboard a ship cruising the Seine.

Reminder
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- Early registration is open (including accommodations).

- There is a limited availability of places at the tutorials, register
early.

- A limited number of stipends for students are available, please apply
before the due date.

- Detailed information and registration through the conference Web site
http://ismir2002.ircam.fr/

What is ISMIR
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The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum
for those involved in the tremendous growth of music-related contents
available digitally, locally or remotely, through networks.

This area presents vast challenges for those who need to organize and
structure, provide tools to search and retrieve, and use them
efficiently: music representation, when it exists, is multi-dimensional
and time-dependent; audio instantiations are voluminous objects
requiring particular care for storage and transmission while preserving
quality; descriptive information about what is musically significant
addresses a large spectrum of internal and external characteristics,
from acoustic to musicological ones; intellectual property rights about
what can be made available and how are complex, involve a variety of
individuals and organizations, and vary from country to country.

All of these concerns are of interest to education, academia,
entertainment and industry. This conference thus aims at providing a
place for the exchange of news, issues and results, by bringing together
researchers and developers, educators and librarians, students and
professional users, working in fields that may contribute significantly
to this multidisciplinary domain, by presenting original theoretical or
practical work in peer-reviewed contributions (papers, posters), serve
as a discussion forum (panels), provide in-depth information in specific
domains (tutorials), and show current products (exhibit).

The honorary chair of the conference is composer conductor Pierre Boulez
and the opening keynote speaker Douglas Hofstadter.Among the keynote and
guest speakers: Leonardo Chiariglione (Telecom Italia and MPEG), Dave
Data (All Media Guide), Harriette Hemmasi (Indiana University), Eric
Scheirer (Bose), Ted Tanner (Microsoft).

Detailed information about the conference and its organization including
registration is available on its Web site (http://ismir2002.ircam.fr/)
and will be regularly posted in the music-ir mailing list (information
on subscription available on the conference site).

ISMIR 2002 is held during IRCAM's "Resonances", the International
Convention on Music Technologies which comprises many other interesting
events (more information on http://resonances.ircam.fr/).