I was thrilled to attend the Boston Music Hackday this week-end. A lot of people hacked up some pretty cool projects, many of us coding until the very early morning Sunday (aka 4am), only to get back up a few hours later (aka 8am) to keep at it until the dreaded 15h45 deadline, when we all had to submit our demos. The organisers did a wonderful job and the event was a success at every level.
ReadMy paper "Steerable Playlist Generation by Learning Song Similarity from Radio Station Playlists" was accepted at ISMIR 2009 in Kobe, Japan.
ReadMy internship at Sun Microsystems Labs, which has been going on for about 15 months - 9 of those full time at their campus in the Boston area - is coming to an end. During the course of those months, I've met a lot of very smart and fun people, I've worked on very challenging and stimulating problems and I've discovered a bunch of really good New England beers.
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