WORKSHOP: Think Tank (Graduate Consortium) at ISMIR 2016

研讨会：ISMIR 2016 智囊团（研究生联盟）

• 批准号: 1646882
• 负责人: Stephen Ruthmann
• 金额: $ 2.57万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1646882&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Think; Tank; Graduate; Consortium

This is funding to support a Think Tank (workshop) for up to 25 promising graduate students along with a panel of up to 6 distinguished research faculty as mentors (including one from Europe). The event will take place in conjunction with the 2016 International Society of Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016), to be held at New York University in New York City from August 7-11, with the Think Tank on the Thursday and Friday before (August 4-5). ISMIR is the premier international forum for presenting research on the modelling, creation, searching, processing and use of musical data. As the term Music Information Retrieval (MIR) indicates, this research is motivated by the desire to provide music lovers, music professionals and the music industry with robust, effective and usable methods and tools to help them locate, retrieve and experience the music they wish to have access to. MIR is a truly interdisciplinary area, involving researchers from the disciplines of musicology, cognitive science, library and information science, computer science, electrical engineering and many others. More information is available online at https://wp.nyu.edu/ismir2016/. The Think Tank is open to graduate students at all stages of their educational program, including both Master's and PhD students; exceptional undergraduates who have demonstrated interest in pursuing this field in their graduate careers may also be considered. To enable the Think Tank to provide an interdisciplinary atmosphere similar to that of ISMIR itself, students will be selected to span a range of research interests. In addition, the organizers will be proactive in promoting diversity among attendees along dimensions such as gender and disability status. And to ensure institutional diversity, the organizers have made a commitment to invite no more than two student participants from any one institution, and if two are invited from the same institution then at least one of them will be a woman.The goals of the Think Tank are: to develop a group of promising young researchers dedicated to music information retrieval, as well as universal access and universal usability, and to provide them with a global network of colleagues from academia and industry to mentor their professional development; to offer each participant fresh perspectives and comments on his/her work from researchers at other institutions, including both faculty and other students; to provide a supportive setting for mutual feedback on participants' current research and guidance on future research directions; and to allow the students to learn of potential career paths within academia and industry. All student participants supported by NSF money will be from institutions of higher learning in the United States. Up to 15 Think Tank Scholars will have their attendance heavily subsidized, and if possible, completely supported; an additional 10 Think Tank Scholars local to the greater New York City area will have their attendance (but not accommodation) subsidized. Industry partners will collaborate with RealIndustry.org to prepare an online mini-course orienting accepted graduate students to current industry best-practices, challenges, and development platforms. Selected student participants will take this course prior to the meeting and provide the other members of the Think Tank with a short write-up of their own work-in-progress. At the Think Tank, students will make brief formal presentations of their work after which small group discussions that include students, faculty, and industry mentors will take place in which all participants provide constructive feedback to help students understand how their work relates to other relevant research, whether their dissertation or master's thesis topics are appropriately focused, whether their methods are correct for the given topic, and whether their analyses are appropriate with well-articulated results. In addition, two panels of industry researchers will give presentations on job opportunities and on the day-to-day work of industry researchers. The Think Tank will be evaluated, and the results made available to the organizers of future such events.

该基金将资助一个智库（研讨会），最多可容纳25名有前途的研究生，并由最多6名杰出的研究人员组成的小组作为导师（其中一名来自欧洲）。该活动将与8月7日至11日在美国纽约大学举行的2016年国际音乐信息检索学会会议（ISMIR 2016）同时举行，智库将于8月4日至5日的周四和周五举行。ISMIR是展示音乐数据建模、创作、搜索、处理和使用研究的首要国际论坛。正如音乐信息检索（MIR）一词所表明的那样，这项研究的动机是希望为音乐爱好者、音乐专业人士和音乐行业提供强大、有效和可用的方法和工具，帮助他们定位、检索和体验他们希望获得的音乐。MIR是一个真正的跨学科领域，涉及来自音乐学、认知科学、图书馆与信息科学、计算机科学、电子工程和许多其他学科的研究人员。更多信息请访问https://wp.nyu.edu/ismir2016/。智库向所有阶段的研究生开放，包括硕士和博士研究生；在研究生生涯中对该领域表现出兴趣的优秀本科生也可以被考虑。为了使智库能够提供类似于ISMIR本身的跨学科氛围，将选择学生跨越一系列研究兴趣。此外，组织者将积极促进与会者在性别和残疾状况等方面的多样性。为了确保机构多样性，组织者承诺从任何一所机构邀请不超过两名学生参加，如果两名学生来自同一所机构，那么其中至少有一名是女性。智库的目标是：培养一批有前途的年轻研究人员，致力于音乐信息检索，以及普遍访问和普遍可用性，并为他们提供一个由学术界和工业界同事组成的全球网络，指导他们的专业发展；为每位参与者提供来自其他机构（包括教师和其他学生）的研究人员对其工作的新观点和评论；为参与者提供一个相互反馈当前研究和指导未来研究方向的支持性环境；并让学生了解在学术界和工业界潜在的职业道路。所有由美国国家科学基金资助的学生参与者将来自美国的高等院校。最多15名智库学者将获得大量资助，如果可能的话，完全支持；另外10名来自大纽约地区的智库学者将获得参会补贴（但不包括住宿费）。行业合作伙伴将与RealIndustry.org合作，准备一门在线迷你课程，为已录取的研究生提供当前行业最佳实践、挑战和开发平台的指导。选定的学生参与者将在会议前学习这门课程，并向智库的其他成员提供一份关于他们自己正在进行的工作的简短报告。在智库，学生将对他们的工作进行简短的正式介绍，之后将进行包括学生，教师和行业导师在内的小组讨论，所有参与者都提供建设性的反馈，以帮助学生了解他们的工作与其他相关研究的关系，他们的论文或硕士论文主题是否适当集中，他们的方法是否适合给定的主题。以及他们的分析是否恰当，结果是否清晰。此外，两组行业研究人员将介绍就业机会和行业研究人员的日常工作。该智库将被评估，其结果将提供给未来此类活动的组织者。