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Boston Music Hackday

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.

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ISMIR 2009

My paper "Steerable Playlist Generation by Learning Song Similarity from Radio Station Playlists" was accepted at ISMIR 2009 in Kobe, Japan.

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My time at Sun Labs and pyaura

My 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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