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Media Arts and Technology |
MAT 595M Seminar Series
Fall 2009
Time: Mondays 5:30-7:00 pm
Location: Harold Frank Hall, room 1132 (Computer Science conference room)
Administrative Contact: Stephen Travis Pope (stephen at heaveneverywhere.com)
This is a seminar in media arts and technology. The seminar will consist of talks by experts in various areas of media arts, multimedia systems, media technology, and related areas of research and practice. There will be a mix of speakers, from UCSB and from outside, with a variety of backgrounds, including computer science, engineering, art, and music. Occasionally we will schedule discussion or brainstorming sessions instead of a talk.
All Media Arts and Technology students are strongly encouraged to attend this seminar. Enrollment is for one unit only (S/U) - please do not sign up for two units.
Fall 2009 Schedule
(Click on the title for abstract and speaker bio)
Date/Time/Location |
Title |
Speaker |
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Monday, October 5 |
Fans, Complexity, Rock Concerts [ Flash Video ] [ MP3 audio ] [ PDF slide show ] |
Ethan Kaplan |
Monday, October 12 |
The Role of DSP Algorithms at Digidesign (Avid Audio) [ Flash Video ] [ MP3 audio ] [ PDF slide show ] |
Ryan Avery |
Monday, October 19 |
DAFx (Digital Audio Effects) Conference Report [ Flash Video ] [ MP3 audio, part 1 ] [ MP3 audio, part 2 ] |
Matt Wright |
Monday, October 26 |
[ Flash Video ] [ MP3 audio ] [ PDF slide show ] |
Camilla Kydland |
Monday, November 2 |
[ Flash Video ] [ MP3 audio ] |
Haru Ji et al |
Monday, November 9 |
Practical Cloud Computing: An Introduction [ Flash Video ] [ MP3 audio ] [ PDF slide show ] |
Stephen T. Pope |
Monday, November 16 |
High-Performance Infrared Imaging [ Flash Video ] [ MP3 audio ] |
Austin Richards |
Monday, November 23 |
Moderated by Salman Bakht |
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Monday, November 30 |
Diana Deutsch |
Previous MAT 595M Seminars
Spring 2009 Schedule
Date/Time/Location |
Title/Topic |
Speaker |
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Friday, April 17 |
iPhone / iPod Development for Profit and Research [ Quick Time Video ] |
Charlie Roberts |
Friday, April 24 |
From Gesture to Sound: Enaction, Improvisation, Computation, and Compositiion [ Quick Time Video ] |
David Wessel |
Friday, May 1 |
Overview of Spectral and Physical Modeling for Sound Synthesis (Postponed) |
Julius Smith |
Friday, May 8 |
Twenty-two Paradigm Shifts (Postponed) |
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Friday, May 15 |
[ Quick Time Video ] |
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Friday, May 22 |
Music Information Retrieval: Applications at Gracenote | Ching-Wei Chen Gracenote, Inc. |
Friday, May 29 |
Nicholas Pisca |
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Friday, June 5 |
George Legrady, Javier Villegas, Andres Burbano UCSB MAT |
Winter 2009 Schedule
Date/Time/Location |
Title/Topic |
Speaker |
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Friday, January 9 |
New Directions in Storytelling: Integrating Multi-media into Theatre |
MAT / Film and Media Studies |
Friday, January 16 |
Movie Skimming and Summarization Using Audio, Visual and Text Saliency |
Technical University of Crete / USC |
Friday, January 23 |
Virtualization of Outdoor Scene Using an Omnidirectional Multi-camera System | Sei Ikeda Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
Friday, January 30 |
None (MAST Workshop) | |
Friday, February 6 |
Randolph Crowson | |
Friday, February 13 |
No meeting | |
Friday, February 20 |
No meeting, but see the weekend events with invited guests Max Mathews, John Chowning, and Jean-Claude Risset | |
Friday, February 27 |
Overview of sound perception and cognition [ Flash Video ] [ Quick Time Video ] [ Presentation PDF ] |
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Friday, March 6 |
[ Flash Video ] [ Quick Time Video ] |
Andy Wilson / Hrvoje Benko |
Friday, March 13 |
Haptics Research in Tampere Unit for Computer Human Interaction (TAUCHI) [ Flash Video ] [ Quick Time Video ] |
Professor Roope Raisamo |
Fall 2008 Schedule
Date/Time/Location |
Title |
Speaker |
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Friday, September 26 |
Peter Kirn |
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Friday, October 3 |
Skip Rizzo |
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Friday, October 10 |
Introduction to Matt Wright: a series of brief demos and conversation-starters |
Matt Wright |
Friday, October 17 |
Algorithmic art: from software to digital drawings and etchings |
Jean-Pierre Hebert |
Friday, October 24 |
Stephen Pope |
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Friday, October 31 |
Interpolar Landscapes - Tactical Media Unmanned Systems Development Overview |
Marko Peljhan |
Friday, November 7 |
No Speaker |
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Friday, November 14 |
Following Ariadne's thread: Sensing technologies for assisted mobility and wayfinding without sight |
Roberto Manducci |
Friday, November 21 |
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin UCSB MAT |
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Friday, November 28 |
Thanksgiving holiday |
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Friday, December 5 |
Martin Raubal |