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ISMIR
2004 Keynote Speaker
Philippe
Aigrain
Director of the Society for Public Information Spaces
Whose future is it?
Content analysis of music and its use in indexing, retrieval
and representation of musical contents has done outstanding
progress in the past few years, progress of which the ISMIR
conferences are testimony. I will try to state a question
regarding the future of this community: can it afford to let
itself be shaped by its environment rather than shaping it?
By environment, I mean the legal environment that was already
addressed in last year's keynote by Anthony Seeger, but also
the technology environment and the research institutional
environment and its impact on innovation and usage. Building
on the past experience of content processing of images, video
... and music, I will call the ISMIR community to take more
decisive steps to shape the future of what it is trying to
achieve.
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Biographie:
Philippe Aigrain is the founder and director of the Society
for Public Information Spaces, which develops free softwares
and provides help services in public debate organization and
cooperative exchanges on the internet. He holds a doctorate
in computer science. After initial activities in software
design, he directed several research teams in the field of
media technology for a long time. From 1996 to 2003 he worked
in the European research programme, where, as head of the
"Software technology and society" section, he promoted
free sofware actions; he also had an active role in developing
the interface between politics and information society, and
statutory initiatives regarding patents and copyright observance.
This led him to develop a political rationale regarding positive
intellectual rights.
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