Queen Mary University London on The Carpentries

Videos of Autumn School Lectures

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

I'm pleased to announce that video recordings of the Software Carpentry lectures I gave in London last fall are now online at http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/autumnschool2010video. Please excuse the mustache—I don't know what I was thinking... Many thanks to Chris Cannam, Ivan Damnjanovic, Luis Figueira, and of course Mark Plumbley.

Done In London

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We wrapped up this week's class in London today: I think a lot of the students felt that they'd been in the wind tunnel most of the week, but the feedback was fairly positive:

Good

new content (hadn't seen before)
covered a lot (good to see things)
easy to apply / pragmatic
group exercises were fun / useful
Subversion
entertaining instructor (blah blah blah)
better understanding of best practices
persuasive arguments for best practices
nice to meet everybody!
accidental knowledge transfer (vertically and sideways)

Bad

Software Carpentry for Audio and Music Researchers

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

I will be teaching a version of Software Carpentry tailored for audio and music researchers at Queen Mary University in London from November 1st to 5th, 2010. From the full announcement:

We are seeking nominations for a small number (up to 15) of UK-based PhD students or early career researchers to attend the Autumn School. The SoundSoftware.ac.uk project will pay for reasonable travel and accommodation costs for attendees.

Software Developer: Audio and Digital Music

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary, University of London, is seeking an experienced Software Developer with a background and knowledge in Audio and Digital Music, to work on a new EPSRC-funded project "Sustainable Software for Digital Music and Audio Research". The aim of this project is to provide a Service to support the development and use of software, data and metadata to enable high quality research in the Audio and Digital Music research community. Please see the job posting for more information.

Interview: Mark Plumbley at Queen Mary University of London

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Today's interview is with Prof. Mark Plumbley, of the Department of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London.

Tell us a bit about your organization and its goals.

We are a new project "Sustainable Software for Digital Music and Audio Research", funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and based at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary University of London. The aim of the project is to provide a Service to support the development and use of software, data and metadata to enable high quality research in the Audio and Digital Music research community. It's really about getting research results—including robust software to implement that research—out to the people who should be able to use them, and then keep it working.