WORKSHOP: Think Tank (Graduate Consortium) at ISMIR 2016

这是资金支持一个智囊团（讲习班）多达25个有前途的研究生沿着与一个小组多达6名杰出的研究教师作为导师（包括一个来自欧洲）。 该活动将与2016年国际音乐信息检索会议（ISMIR 2016）一起举行，该会议将于8月7日至11日在纽约市的纽约大学举行，智囊团将于8月4日至5日的周四和周五举行。 ISMIR是介绍音乐数据建模、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，以帮助他们找到，检索和体验他们希望访问的音乐。 MIR是一个真正的跨学科领域，涉及来自音乐学，认知科学，图书馆和信息科学，计算机科学，电气工程等学科的研究人员。 更多信息请访问https://wp.nyu.edu/ismir2016/。 该智库是开放给研究生在他们的教育计划的各个阶段，包括硕士和博士生;谁表现出在他们的研究生生涯追求这一领域的兴趣特殊的本科生也可以考虑。 为了使智囊团能够提供一个类似于ISMIR本身的跨学科氛围，学生将被选择跨越一系列的研究兴趣。 此外，组织者将积极促进与会者沿着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，任何一所机构邀请的学生参与者不超过两名，如果同一所机构邀请了两名学生参与，则其中至少有一名是女性。培养一批有前途的年轻研究人员，致力于音乐信息检索，以及普遍获取和普遍使用，并为他们提供一个由学术界和工业界的同事组成的全球网络，以指导他们的专业发展;为每位参与者提供新的观点和其他机构研究人员（包括教师和其他学生）对其工作的评论;为参与者提供一个支持性的环境，以相互反馈他们目前的研究和指导未来的研究方向;并让学生了解学术界和工业界的潜在职业道路。 所有由NSF资助的学生参与者将来自美国的高等院校。 多达15名智库学者将获得大量资助，如果可能的话，完全支持他们的出席;另外10名大纽约市地区的智库学者将获得他们的出席（但不包括住宿）补贴。 行业合作伙伴将与RealIndustry.org合作，准备一个在线迷你课程，为被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之前参加这门课程，并向智囊团的其他成员提供他们自己正在进行的工作的简短报告。 在智囊团，学生将做简短的正式介绍他们的工作后，小组讨论，包括学生，教师和行业导师将发生在所有参与者提供建设性的反馈，以帮助学生了解他们的工作如何涉及到其他相关研究，无论他们的论文或硕士论文的主题是适当的重点，他们的方法是否是正确的给定的主题，以及他们的分析是否恰当，是否有清晰的结果。 此外，两个行业研究人员小组将介绍就业机会和行业研究人员的日常工作。 将对该智囊团进行评估，并将评估结果提供给今后此类活动的组织者。

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.