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The Rhode & Schwarz RTB2000 series digital oscilloscopes offer the Power of ten: 10-bit ADC, 10 Msample memory and 10.1 inch colour touchscreen. These features ombined with smart operating concepts make the R&S®RTB2000 series the perfect tools for university laboratories, for troubleshooting embedded designs during development and for production and service departments.
This series of oscilloscopes offer the largest (10.1 inch) capacitive touch display with the highest resolution of 1280 ´ 800 pixel in its class. The touch screen allows quick navigation in pop-up menus, easily adjust scaling, zoom in or to move a waveform and even annotate the display and take screenshots. It works just like your smartphone touch screen.
The R&S®RTB2000 series give users more than just an oscilloscope. It also includes a logic analyser, protocol analyser, waveform and pattern generator and digital voltmeter. Dedicated operating modes for frequency analysis, mask tests and long data acquisitions are also integrated. Debugging all kinds of electronic systems is easy and efficient.
10 bit vertical resolution
1 mV/div: full measurement bandwidth and low noise
10Msample standard and 20 Msample interleaved
Segmented memory: 160 Msample with history
10.1 inch high resolution capacitive touch screen with gesture support
On-screen annotation function by using your finger with screen-shot capture
Fast access to important tools
Education mode disables automatic functions for more manual control
Multilingual support Mixed signal operation option (model dependant, also any oscilloacope can be upgraded to MSO with the RTB-B1 MSO option (RS 143-9334)
143-9311 RTB2002, 70 MHz, 2ch
143-9312 RTB2002, 70MHz, 2ch, MSO
143-9313 RTB2004, 70 MHz, 4ch
143-9315 RTB2004, 70 MHz, 4ch, MSO
143-9316 RTB2002, 100 MHz, 2ch
143-9317 RTB2004, 100 MHz, 2ch, MSO
143-9318 RTB2004, 100 MHz, 4ch
143-9319 RTB2004,100 MHz,4ch, MSO
143-9321 RTB2002, 200 MHz, 2ch
143-9322 RTB2002, 200 MHz, 2ch, MSO
143-9323 RTB2004, 200 MHz, 4ch
143-9324 RTB2004, 200 MHz, 4ch, MSO
143-9325 RTB2002, 300 MHz, 2ch
143-9326 RTB2002, 300 MHz, 2ch, MSO
143-9327 RTB2004, 300 MHz, 4ch
143-9328 RTB2004, 300 MHz, 4ch, MSO
The Rohde & Schwarz RTB2000 oscilloscopes can be adapted by the installation of software updates. These updates apply to triggering and decoding of serial protocols and the history and segmented memory mode. The waveform and pattern generator and the MSO capabilities (model dependent, see below) are built-in and just need to be activated. The bandwidth can be upgraded up to 300MHz making functional retrofitting very easy.
143-9336 RTB-B221 Upgrade 100 MHz for RTB2002
143-9337 RTB-B222 Upgrade 200 MHz for RTB2002
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143-9330 RTB-K2 UART/RS232 Trigger & Decode
143-9331 RTB-K3 CAN/LIN Trigger & Decode
143-9332 RTB-K15 History & Segmented Memory
143-9333 RTB-PK1 Software Option Bundle
143-9334 RTB-B1 Mixed Signal Option
143-9335 RTB-B6 Function Generator
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EDITORIAL: Congress hobbles gun regulation
While the debate about federal gun control legislation has largely centered on renewing a ban on assault rifles that expired in 2004, a more effective approach might be breaking the shackles placed on U.S. firearms regulators by the gun rights lobby.
With the National Rifle Association in the lead, gun rights groups have waged a successful fight through sympathetic members of Congress to limit, even cripple, the work of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
For example, the bureau has not had a permanent director in six years. President Barack Obama's appointment of a permanent director has been stalled in the Senate since 2010 thanks to opposition by the NRA. President George W. Bush had no better luck having a permanent director confirmed. The delay is the result of a law pushed by the NRA that requires Senate confirmation of a director's appointment.
The negative effect of the lack of a permanent director on the ATF's morale and efficiency is compounded by multiple restrictions on its work.
Congress has blocked the creation of a federal firearms registry. Rather than logging into a computer to trace the history of a gun, ATF agents must search by hand to establish its sale and ownership. The bureau did 344,447 gun traces in the last year with a staff no larger than it was eight years ago. The traces can show patterns of gun trafficking and tie suspects to crimes.
Further, federal laws actually make it easier for dealers to break gun laws. The ATF is limited to only one unannounced inspection annually of a licensed gun dealer. A gun dealer's falsification of records has been watered down from a felony to a misdemeanor.
Background checks of gun buyers must be destroyed within 24 hours of a sales approval -- not only making it harder to detect falsification of records, but the detection of sales to straw buyers. In some instances, the ATF cannot even use tracing data to revoke a dealer's license.
Finally, the amount of information the ATF can disclose publicly is limited. For example, the ATF reports that among the Connecticut guns it traced in 2011 were those used in 24 homicides. But, it can not publicly disclose the source of these weapons. This secrecy throws a veil over public awareness of the gun trade and violence that if lifted would prompt more calls for action.

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Vail Daily letters: SOS participants talk about London Olympics
Vail, CO, Colorado
Editor's note: Following are the thoughts of SOS Outreach participants from Eagle County who attended the Olympic Games in London this past summer.
London 2012
First off, I would to say thank you to SOS and Global Sports Development for giving me this experience of a lifetime. Going to London to see the Olympics and going to see the city was the best time ever. Getting to meet Bob Beaman and to hear about his life at the Olympics and after was amazing.
During this trip I got to meet many people. I got to meet people from Canada and from London. Getting to meet kids from the London Sports Trust and kids who had done artwork and writing poems shows how much they wanted this trip. Spending days and nights with this group of kids couldn't have been any better! I got to learn from the London group about what some of the museums meant to them.
Getting to see the Olympics was the best thing I have ever done. I went and saw the men's and women's beach volleyball. The third game of the women's match was the best even though I was going for team Germany. These girls know how to bring the crowd to its feet. By the end of the match team Germany won 32-30. I was hoarse the next day because of how much I was yelling at that game.
Being able to watch professional volleyball players play will help me so that I am better for my volleyball season.
Getting to use all five of the core values meant a lot to the SOS group because we got to use courage, wisdom, discipline, integrity and compassion every day.
There was one day that it took all of us to walk from the London Eye to the Hyde Park VIP section. Even though it was a long walk, we all managed to get there before it started. Being able to collect pins and getting to shop for gifts for the family back home was great.
Leaving my parents at the hotel was the hardest thing I have ever done. I missed them every second of every day. Being away from my dog and from my family was making me homesick! Knowing that my family was over 1,000 miles away, it helped to know that they were going to be at the airport when I got off the airplane.
As soon as I turned on my phone, I got a text message from my mom asking where I was, which made me happy because I knew that she was outside waiting for me.
Kelsey Bellm
Junior Sherpa, Battle Mountain High School, SOS Participant for six years
Changed my life
Olympics 2012 in London: a dream come true. Eighteen kids from the United States were chosen to go to London, and I was fortunate to be one of them. Knowing that I was representing the United States, I knew I had to be on my A game.
After landing in London, my heart was pumping. I was ready to see everything. From culture to athletics, everything seemed to pop and look amazing. Not knowing the events we were going to see was half the excitement.
Getting to London felt as if I had won the lottery. Anything after was unbelievable. I thought this trip was going to be just for fun, but the truth is I changed.
When we landed in London, I still couldn't believe it. I pinched myself, trying to make sure it wasn't a dream.
The first day we were there, we didn't rest. We were up and ready to explore. As we headed down where we were staying, we were in shock.
The building we were staying in was called High Leigh. This building was a mansion, hospital, church and now a hotel. The staffs were extremely generous, and we found out most of them were volunteers and part of the Salvation Army.
Knowing how generous people are made me think, if they can do things for others, and not think of themselves, then why are most things all about me? I became more aware.
Traveling through London made me see the differences between the United States and Great Britain. I realized the United States is more socially insecure. By that I mean races are more separated here than there. I saw that in Great Britain every culture was mixing with each other. I felt safe and secure.
I enjoyed seeing that everywhere we went I saw people helping and not racial problems like are faced here. I love America. I just believe that the United States can become more of a unit. I mean, if Great Britain did it, we can do it, too. It's not impossible.
In London, we met with kids from Canada and London. I learned from talking to some of them that they don't have perfect lives. They struggle just the same way as I do. Their lives haven't been filled with high points, and you can say they are "at-risk kids," too.
Knowing that there are kids with same problems as I have is a relief, since I know I am not the only one.
Other than that, I learned how each culture reacts to one another. We all speak English, but different accents. It was interesting and fun to try to mimic one another's accents.
Each culture had different ways of making friends, it was interesting. We all were shy, but we became so close at the end, it was depressing to say goodbye. It was like saying goodbye to a family back at the states. The only problem was that these people we were probably not going to see ever again, and it hurt more than anything.
I also learned that being generous always pays off. Just knowing that the Olympics had many people there was crazy. But the wild thing was that everyone I saw there was helping out one another, and it seemed as though I was back in Eagle — the little community that helps one another and everyone helps keep the town running.
Being such a big event, I thought that I would have had to just take care of myself, but everywhere I went, someone was there to give a hand. I knew then that the Olympics brought people together. Everyone just wanting to see their athletes win, and this brought Americans, Mexicans, British, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, all different cultures, together for this one massive event.
This trip helped me see how the world works outside the little community I live in. It opened my eyes to see that life outside the Eagle Valley is amazing.
At the beginning of this trip I believed that I was just going to have fun, and that's about it. I didn't expect to learn so much and find things I didn't know about the world, but now that I look back this trip has changed my perspective in many ways.
Jesus Garcia
Junior Sherpa, Eagle Valley High School, SOS Outreach participant for seven years
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VOGUE, TAKE TWO: The Vogue Festival in London is headed for an encore, and will take on April 27 to 28, according to the magazine. Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue said the event would be on an even larger scale than last year. "Giving our readers the chance to see and hear the people whose talent is reflected in the pages of the magazine…attracts an engaged and lively audience that are part of the unique appeal of this event," she said.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a proposed ballot measure that, if successful, would make the state the first in the South to legalize medical marijuana.
Justices rejected a challenge by a coalition of conservative groups who had asked the court to block the proposed initiated act from the November ballot or order the state to not count any votes cast on the issue.
The measure would allow patients with qualifying conditions to buy marijuana from nonprofit dispensaries with a doctor's recommendation. The proposal acknowledges that marijuana is still illegal under federal law, but the Coalition to Preserve Arkansas Values argued that it doesn't adequately explain that approved users could still face federal prosecution.
"We hold that it is an adequate and fair representation without misleading tendencies or partisan coloring," the court wrote. "Therefore, the act is proper for inclusion on the ballot at the general election on Nov. 6, 2012, and the petition is therefore denied."
Arkansas will be the first Southern state to put the medical marijuana question to voters. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have legalized it in some fashion. Massachusetts voters are also expected to vote on the issue this fall, while the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled a medical marijuana initiative can't appear on that state's ballot.
The conservative coalition argued that Arkansas' 384-word ballot question doesn't accurately describe other consequences of passing the 8,700-word law, including a provision that would allow minors to use medical marijuana with parental consent.
Justices disagreed and said the proposed law is fairly summarized in the question that will appear on the ballot.
"Here, after reviewing the ballot title of 384 words, we conclude that the title informs the voters in an intelligible, honest and impartial manner of the substantive matter of the act," the ruling said.
The group behind the measure, Arkansans for Compassionate Care, told the court it believes the measure is sufficiently fair to go before voters. David Couch, an attorney for the group, said he was pleased with the ruling and said it allowed them to shift gears to building support for the measure's passage.
"Now that we've passed muster with the Supreme Court we'll begin our campaign to show the people of the state of Arkansas that this is truly a compassionate measure," Couch said.
The coalition also shifted into campaign mode, preparing to mobilize church leaders and other conservatives to oppose the measure.
"This is about the first incremental step to legalizing marijuana for recreational use," said coalition member Larry Page, the director of the Arkansas Faith and Ethics Council.
Under the proposal, qualifying health conditions would include cancer, glaucoma, HIV, AIDS and Alzheimer's disease. The proposal also would allow qualifying patients or a designated caregiver to grow marijuana if the patient lives more than 5 miles from a dispensary.
The conservative coalition's members include leaders of the Arkansas Faith and Ethics Council, the Family Council Action Committee and the Families First Foundation.
Past efforts to put medical marijuana on the ballot in Arkansas have faltered, though voters in two cities in the state have approved referendums that encourage police to regard arrests for small amounts of marijuana as a low priority.
Supporters of the current proposal mounted an organized and well-funded campaign that surprised many political observers. Arkansans for Compassionate Care, the group advocating for the measure, won ballot access after submitting far more than the required 62,500 signatures.
Medical marijuana has never come before voters in the South partly because of the difficulty of getting such initiatives on the ballot. And conservative legislators throughout the region have not backed the efforts. The Washington-based Marijuana Policy Project has provided most of the funding for the campaign in Arkansas, contributing $251,000 to the effort.
Officials with the group said they stepped in after polling showed strong support for the measure in Arkansas. Group leaders also cite a "symbolic" value in passing a medical marijuana law in the South.
"I think it's a sign that marijuana policy reform is an idea that is coming of age now across the nation, rather than just in the states where we've seen it so far," said Morgan Fox, the group's communications director. "It's really an important moment."
Gov. Mike Beebe, who is opposed to the proposal, told reporters on Thursday he doesn't believe the state's voters would legalize medical marijuana. Beebe said he's asked for an estimate of how much it will cost the state to regulate the dispensaries if the measure passes.
"If I understand what I think I understand about it, if it passes, it's going to require a whole of administration from the health department," Beebe said. "I don't know where we're going to get it from."
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Quantum Groundhog Day
Summary of comments thus far on first quantum computing post
Bill Murray is an American comic actor, who was initially famous for his work on the American comedy TV show Saturday Night Live (SNL) as both actor and writer. His movie career took off with acclaimed performances in Caddyshack (1980) and Ghostbusters (1984). His most soulful comic role, however, is the initially egotistical TV weatherman Phil Connors in Groundhog Day (1993). He is sent to cover the annual February 2 ritual in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania of consulting a groundhog (a large native rodent) to forecast whether winter will be harsh. Instead he finds himself in a time loop where Feb. 2 endlessly repeats, and "Groundhog Day" now refers in popular speech to any fraught recurring situation.
Today we begin the 4th year of this blog, and though we try to avoid repetition, some themes recur. One is active discussion of research claims and controversies, with passion for ideas, and we are taking time out to recognize a current instance. The first posts date to Feb. 12, 2009, so perhaps we will fix that as the anniversary later. As we gave thanks here for commenters in early posts, so we do here for current ones.
We take our cue from the quantum groundhog featured one year ago on the blog of the ANS Nuclear Café. That post begins:
Gil Kalai permalinkFebruary 3, 2012 8:10 am
One aspect of the discussion that I find puzzeling is the following:
Some people are much more ready to accept a reality where QC are possible in principle, but it will take a hundred years to build them, or even that they will not be built at all, compared to a reality that there is a 10% chance that a principle explaining why quantum computers are infeasible will be discovered, but otherwise they will be built in 20 years.
February 5, 2012 8:01 pm
Scott's analogy of human flight to Mars is a good analogy for how I think about it.
Will we send a human to Mars in the next 20 or 100 years? I'd assign some low probabilities to this, like 1% or so.
Is doing so absolutely impossible, like faster-than-light travel? I'd assign probability 0.000001% to this. This probability is pretty much the floor that I assign to possibilities like our universe being a simulation, or that I'm insane and not able to rationally make predictions, or that there's some other reason that most of my fundamental beliefs about the world are totally wrong.
I am slightly less confident in the in-principle feasibility of QC. But I am confident enough to argue for it. 🙂
February 3, 2012 11:13 am
Ok, I'll toss in my 0.2 cents. My first point is that I have no idea what I am talking about. I've only ever had a quick romp through QM, and I've seen a bit of stuff about QC but never looked at it in detail. But it's Friday, and I figured I'd just chime in with the totally naive observer perspective.
It was implied earlier that not believing in QM would mean not believing in QC. That's fundamentally my position, although it is not quite that simple. I keep zeroing in on the noise aspect. I see the underlying probabilities in QM as an artifact of the boundary between two discrete formal systems. Ignoring duality for the moment, a universe composed of particles that inhibit discrete locations, behaving in a repeatable manner, forms a deterministic system. A larger non-aligned system overlaid on top of this would induce a probabilistic uncertainty mismatch between these two systems.
By way of analogy, I see it as looking through a camera at the world, but one where the lens is distorted and blurry. If that's your only perspective, you could easily conclude that what you are seeing in the viewfinder does indeed match reality. If you see a blurry cat in front of you, you can reach out and touch the blurry cat, so it would confirm your conviction that you are seeing the world as it is, which to some degree you are.
But what you are also getting in that picture is a significant amount of artifacts — noise — that is making it difficult to precisely find the boundaries of the cat. You could ignore this noise, or work it into your world philosophy, but the noise itself is an artifact of the lens you are using, not the world around you.
Getting back to quantum computers, if the fundamental underlying issue is that the noise is significant in preventing one from utilizing these constructs for deterministic calculation, it seems to me that the noise might not be coming from the underlying physics, but rather from the model being used to describe the underlying physics. And it would also seem to me that the ability to build a QC is intrinsically tied with the accuracy of QM. The model might be workable, but that does mean that it's the best or most accurate model of the world around us. A much better lens for the camera might eliminate the probability of reaching out for the cat, but missing …
But it is Friday, and I am clueless 🙂
Tyle Stelzig permalinkFebruary 9, 2012 8:49 pm
I liked your post a lot, it was clear and well-articulated. But I disagree. 🙂
Like it or not, nature just isn't deterministic. There is no deterministic theory which can explain phenomena like this which doesn't get lots of other stuff wrong. QM may not be the final word, but it's certainly right about probabilities.
To put it another way, it happens to be a fact about our world that a maximally informative set of information about the state of a system (even an 'ideal' system) does not completely determine the outcomes of all possible measurements performed on that system. If you perform one of these undeterminable measurements, you will indeed obtain a value, but in doing so you will destroy the OTHER information you previously had about the system. In other words, the outcomes of experiments which otherwise would have been predictable with certainty no longer are. One of the triumphs of quantum theory is packaging this (and other) strangeness in a remarkably concise framework.
You say, "[quantum mechanics] might be workable, but that doesn't mean that it's the best or most accurate model of the world around us." You're certainly right that QM doesn't have to be exactly right. But certain essential features are here to stay. For example, Newton was wrong about gravity. But clearly any theory of gravity had to explain the success of Newton's theory – for example, it had to predict that objects of mass should experience an attractive force that is usually at least roughly proportional to r^(-2). And quantum theory has been tested with far more precision than any other theory in the history of science. Certain parameters in QED have been shown to agree with experiment to more than 10 significant figures. That's like measuring the distance to the moon, and worrying about millimeters… And since so little is put into the theory, these successes reflect an accurate theoretical structure, rather than successful fine-tuning. It is truly remarkable. So my point is this: while it's possible, or even likely, that improvements to this theory may be found, these modifications will have to respect the profound successes that the theory has had. And this necessarily implies that the new theory will also be probabilistic.
At least, the theory has to be probabilistic several orders of magnitude below what we can directly see (so a thousand times smaller than an electron or more). But conceivably there could be an immense collection of deterministic events operating at scales much much smaller than what we can measure, as long as the behavior of this hidden assembly produces quantum phenomena in the aggregate. This would not be unlike the emergence of thermodynamics from statistical mechanics.
But the important point is that even if this rather fantastical picture turns out to be true, the behavior of the hidden assembly must be PRECISELY (well, with 10 sig figs) that which produces the quantum behavior that we are familiar with. Thus, discovering that this is the case would not change that fact that phenomena at quantum scales are unavoidably probabilistic. And also note that this scenario would be quite different from "the noise coming from the model", rather than from the physics. The noise comes from the physics, and if our model did not reflect that noise, it would be wrong.
Steven W permalinkFebruary 3, 2012 12:54 pm
I like your blog, but why must you start these flame wars? Perpetual motion?!
February 3, 2012 2:28 pm
Ken Regan asserts: "Bill Murray's most soulful comic role, however, is the initially egotistical TV weatherman Phil Connors in Groundhog Day (1993)."
For mathematicians, yes. For scientists however, Bill Murray's most soulful role is the aging-yet-still-committed Steve Zissou in the meta-eponymous film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), in which the elusive "jaguar shark" stands as a metaphor for quantum factoring engines (and many another scientific quest too).
February 4, 2012 12:07 pm
Yes, it is puzzling that people are so eager to accept the possibility of QC, when the empirical evidence is so weak.
February 5, 2012 8:12 pm
The evidence for quantum mechanics is overwhelming, and no one has a physical theory that permits quantum mechanics but not quantum computing. Gil is trying to develop one, but it's not yet the kind of theory like the Standard Model that you can use to make precise physical predictions.
February 8, 2012 7:35 am
Please let me express the hope (and the expectation) that this wonderful GLL-hosted QM / QC / QIT debate will escape the dreadful quagmire into which the climate-change debates have fallen; a quagmire in which the weakest forms of "gotcha" criticism assail the weakest forms of "not even wrong" science.
It is sobering to reflect that the dogmatically polarized climate-change debate has been largely characterized by invective language and disputed wagers rather than creative math-and-science. The resulting dialogs surely are heated, yet regrettably are not illuminating.
We all prosper when the strongest and most innovative (yet kindly and collegial) criticisms assail the strongest and most successful (yet flexible) scientific theories, and these are the posts that I have most enjoyed reading here on GLL.
Fortunately, there have been plenty of illuminating posts on both sides of the debate … more please! 🙂 🙂 🙂
- Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Whether or not God plays dice, I do
- Updates, Boolean Functions Conference, and a Surprising Application to Polytope Theory | Combinatorics and more
- My Quantum Debate with Aram Harrow: Timeline, Non-technical Highlights, and Flashbacks I | Combinatorics and more
- The Busy Beaver Problem | Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP


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A week in the life of a Finds Liaison Officer
By Wendy Scott, FLO forLeicester, Leicestershire andRutland.
Saturday 16th July
My first 'National Archaeology Fortnight' event. I am doing an identification session at Melton Mowbray museum today. During the week I assisted the local detecting and fieldwork groups mount an exhibition for NAF in the Community Showcase. So I have a wonderful backdrop of Roman, Medieval and post medieval metalwork and pottery! I have met two new finders and recorded some good material.
Sunday 17th July
Festival of History! Today was a very long but very enjoyable day. We always have a stand in the English Heritage marquee and we usually manage to speak to hundreds of people about our work, especially when it rains and they run for cover! Watching re-enactors of all periods mixing together is quite weird, I'm sure it must confuse the kids! The afternoon dogfight between a Messerschmitt and a Spitfire was cool (obviously the spitfire won!)
Monday 18th July.
Today I am having a well earned rest! I am just in the office to return equipment used over the weekend and to collect a couple of small treasure items which I am passing on to our manager, Roger Bland tomorrow. He will then take them down to the BritishMuseum for the curators to identify and prepare a Treasure report for the Coroner.
Tuesday 19th July
Regional meeting, BirminghamMuseum. This is when we catch up with each other, discuss issues, organise events etc. Today we had a special treat. We visited the Conservation lab to have a look at Staffordshire hoard objects being cleaned before going on display. They get more amazing the more we see them! We also said goodbye to Duncan Slarke, Ex West Mids. FLO (the person the Staffordshire hoard was reported to). Hes off to a new life in Oslo. Lykke til Duncan!
Wednesday 20th July
Today I dealt with Treasure paperwork, passed on purchased Treasure to the Museums staff and took delivery of a medieval gold ring which needs to go through the Treasure system. I spent the rest of the day editing photos (taken at a MD club meeting) ready to add to our website.
This evening I am going to the launch of 'Visions of Ancient Leicester' A book showing reconstructions based on the last 10 years of extensive excavation in the city. A large Roman coin hoard, a treasure case I worked on, recently purchased by Leicester City Musuems.
Thursday 21st July
Today I am trying to get some records on the website. I have a collection of objects including a group of early Medieval metalwork, which has confirmed the location of a long suspected Anglo-SaxonCemetery in the Melton Mowbray area. So as well as adding these to the website I have alerted local Archaeologists who have been wondering where the cemetery might be! This morning I also processed some Museum Identifications which may or may not end up on the web too.
Friday 22nd July
More data entry today (it never ends!). I have written a Treasure report for the ring I collected on Wednesday and sent that to the British Museum for checking. I also had the joy of submitting my quarterly financial claim, which always involves fighting the County Council Finance system for a few hours! Last job of the day was packing my car with Roman material and kids activities for Saturday's event.
Saturday 23rd July
'Meet the experts' at Harborough Museum. My last NAF event, today we are concentrating on the Iron age and Roman periods to compliment our wonderful Hallaton Hoard display (over 5,000 Iron age coins excavated from a 'temple' site). I have been showing people Roman coins and artefacts and getting children to design their own coins. My Colleague Helen Sharp has been teaching people about life in the Iron age and letting people make their own replica coins, always immensely popular!
I'm now off on a camping trip with my extended family, so enjoy 'Day of Archaeology!


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The Avenue Hollywood Ribbon Cutting & Grand Opening Ceremony
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The Avenue Hollywood, in conjunction with The Resmark Companies, Lincoln Property Company and The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, hosted its Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony this month, officially marking The Avenue as part of the Hollywood community.
The Avenue Hollywood has been leasing for several months now, but the official induction took place on Thursday, April 12. The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony was held in front of the leasing office, immediately followed by the Grand Opening Celebration located inside the property's swank pool area and throughout designated party areas of the community.
The Classic LA-themed party featured photo displays presented by LA Magazine in three different apartment units showcasing Los Angeles' past, present and future. Attendees of the party enjoyed catered fare from Lotteria Grille, eclectic tunes from KCRW and signature tequila cocktails.


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First off I should say that I always find it quite uneasy calling myself an Illustrator. To me illustrator conjurs up images of amazing artefact and reconstruction drawings; I am not one of those, I deal with plans, sections, maps using CAD, GIS and Adobe Illustrator, as well as carrying out graphic design and web design.
Today I have three main tasks to deal with:
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On top of this I normally have lots of small tasks given to me over the course of a working day. These can be to place a news item on our website and then tweet a link to all of our followers, to design & produce a trenching plan for evaluations, to edit/enhance photographs, to PDF documents ready to be sent to clients (my machine is one of the few capable of producing PDFs) and so on.
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Far too often a series of phones becomes dull routine, with the device manufacturer simply churning out yet another familiar model rather than designing something new. Not so with the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide. HTC could have simply changed the colors, tweaked the shape, nudged up the camera quality, and added 4G for a perfectly acceptable Android successor to the MyTouch 3G Slide. Instead, it took the high road and equipped the MyTouch 4G Slide with a speedy processor, the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, a version of HTC Sense 3 adapted to T-Mobile's MyTouch aesthetic, and an improved camera that HTC has filled with software features.
The camera indeed offers a more complete experience that will have you relying on your smartphone to capture stills and videos of those one-of-a-time moments, rather than wishing you had your point-and-shoot instead. However, HTC overpromised on its camera glory and underdelivered a tad. (We spent some quality time comparing the camera with other smartphones cameras here.) Then there's the rather flat keyboard to contend with. Still, we have to commend HTC and T-Mobile for creating a compelling smartphone that gives you some real bang for your $199.99 bucks.
In many respects, the MyTouch 4G Slide is similar to the MyTouch 3G Slide that came before it, and indeed to the MyTouch 4G. It has the same smooth plastic body with the slightly protruding chin at its base, plus the four physical buttons and touch pad. It comes in khaki and black colors--we tested it in khaki.
The MyTouch 4G Slide is slightly taller and thinner than its predecessor, but ultimately it's a huskier phone, at 4.8 inches tall by 2.4 inches wide by 0.5 inch thick and a weight of 6.5 ounces. By comparison, the 3G version stands 4.6 inches tall by 2.4 inches wide by 0.6 inch thick and weighs 5.8 ounces. The 4G Slide is a heavy hunk of hardware, no doubt, but it's also sturdy.
The extra little bit of height accommodates the phone's 3.7-inch, WVGA Super LCD screen, up from the 3G Slide's 3.4 inch HVGA display. It's a nice, bright display, but the 800x400-pixel resolution isn't as stellar as some. (Read more on screen technology titans here).
Above the screen is the front-facing VGA camera. There's also an LED indicator light that flashes green when you've got new messages. Below the screen is the aforementioned (and customary) button quartet, with controls for Home, Menu, Back, and the Genius button that launches voice-to-text voice functions and voice commands. You'll also find an optical touch pad that doubles as a select button.
On the right spine you'll find the handy dedicated camera button. As with some other models we've seen on the market, you'll be able to press the button to take photos even if the phone is locked. On the left you'll find the volume rocker and Micro-USB charging port; the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and power button are up top.
Nestled into the back of the 4G Slide is the much-ballyhooed 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and 1080p HD video playback and capture (more on this below). Behind the back cover there's the microSD card slot that accepts up to 32GB expandable memory. The phone comes with a generous 8GB microSD card preinstalled.
The slide-out QWERTY keyboard is clearly one of the phone's hallmarks, and we have to hand it to HTC for tucking an entire keyboard into a phone that's about as thick as the MyTouch 4G, a phone that has no keyboard. That's no easy feat, but the trade-off is a flatter QWERTY than we'd like, and flat keys tend to be less comfortable and slow down nimble typists. That said, the 4G Slide gets the spacing and size of the buttons right, and we appreciate the indicator lights that shine when Caps and Alt are on. The sliding action feels smooth and strong.
In addition to the physical keyboard, HTC has preinstalled Swype's virtual keyboard by default.
The MyTouch 4G Slide runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which first shipped on the Nexus S 4G. In addition, HTC has tacked on a revised version of its Sense 3 interface that's been adapted to fit the preexisting MyTouch aesthetic, with straight lines instead of Sense's typical curves and angles. See our review of the HTC Sensation for comparison.
When you first start the phone, you'll be able to choose from one of six themes, from slate gray to purple tones. The MyTouch interface also walks you through set-up options for your Google Account, other e-mail accounts, and social networks, a work flow we found convenient and straightforward.
Like the MyTouch 4G, the 4G Slide has a front-facing VGA camera for self-portraits and video chatting. Yet it's the 8-megapixel camera that's the star of the show. It has dual-LED flash and 1080p HD video capture and playback, which is typical for high-end phones these days--for instance, you also see that combination on the HTC Sensation. HTC Sense 3 software includes automatic facial detection and some extra effects you can select before taking a photo.
Beyond that, the 4G Slide's lens has a wider aperture (which lets in more light) and a backside-illuminated sensor (BSI). The BSI sensor is there to improve the camera's speed and performance in low-light conditions, and it's a trick Apple also uses in its iPhone 4 camera. BSI also improves the dynamic range, that is, the contrast between the lightest whites and darkest blacks. CNET digital imaging editor Josh Goldman explains BSI sensors here.


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By World Triathlon Admin on 13/04/06 at 12:00 am
Athletes from five African nations (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mauritius, Kenya) assembled at Troutbeck Inn in Nyanga, Zimbabwe for the All African Triathlon Championships.
Nyanga lies in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe at an altitude of over 2, 500m above sea level.
Coupled with the altitude the athletes had to contend with one of the most arduous courses on the triathlon circuit.
In the Men's Elite race Erhard Wolfaardt from South Africa took the lead from the start of the swim and never relinquished it throughout the day.
This young U23 talent from South Africa finished more than 10 minutes ahead of his nearest rival. Rory Mackie, overall second on the day, caught up after a huge deficit on the swim to move into podium contention at the end of the bike. He had an excellent run on this exacting course to take the silver medal on the day.
Travis Campbell from South Africa took the bronze medal.
In the women's race Kate Roberts (South Africa) had another good swim and came out of the water with a slight lead on Riana De Lange (South Africa). They worked well together on the bike but could not hold off Corinne Berg, also from South Africa, who rode through the field solo to catch the two leaders.
The run was a hard fought battle between the two athletes from South Africa with Kate Roberts first across the line and Corinne Berg in silver medal position only 3 seconds behind Roberts. Riana De Lange held on for the bronze medal.
The All African Championships was a huge success thanks to the excellent team work of the Zimbabwe Triathlon Association.
1. Erhard Wolfaardt, RSA - 2:08:36
2. Rory Mackie, ZIM - 2:18:57
3. Travis Campbell, RSA - 2:19:04
1. Kate Roberts, RSA - 2:28:38
2. Corinne Berg, RSA - 2:28:41
3. Riana De Lange, RSA - 2:34:55
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War through a soldier's lens
Since October, The Daily Telegraph has been posting a couple of videos every month from soldiers on a six month tour of Helmand with the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
Although the clips clearly undergo some editing at the hands of the Telegraph, they are otherwise entirely shot by three men from the ranks: Corporal Donald McMaster, Sergeant Billy Carnegie and Private Peter McQuaid.
The insight they provide into the daily lives of troops on the ground is superb; because it is the soldiers themselves shooting the footage, the conversations witnessed are those between mates – bantering and larking around, bereft of the sanitised PR conversations normal journalists might elicit. The viewer has a real sense of what daily life is like, of how they get through the day.
Televised by the protagonists
If Vietnam was the first televised war, then the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are surely the first conflicts to be televised by the protagonists themselves. Although not all videos are as interesting or coherent as those from the Scots, a quick search on YouTube turns up hundreds of videos of IED explosions, firefights and tributes to fallen comrades. Typing Afghanistan gives you 485,000 results, while Iraq gives you 779,000.
The videos seem to fit the formula of any other YouTube clip: unexpected things happening to ordinary people. Except you are not watching a teenager from the Midwest falling off his skateboard, but a booby trap which might have taken countless lives.
The voices in these videos – often disembodied, off-camera – are not those of sanitised war heroes, but of young men, pumped with mutual machismo and adrenaline. It is clear that some get a kick out of the precarious situation in which they find themselves, but it is clear that the bravado evident in many clips is a way of coping with such extremes. Many videos posted, particularly the tributes, are an effort both to come to terms with and provide a snapshot of the realities of war; its mundanity, its camaraderie and its brutality.
From a journalistic perspective, no one video can provide you with a complete, coherent sense of what life is like on the frontline, but taking the legion of them together reminds you that war is not really about strategy or death tolls, it is about the squaddies at the sharp end of the action. It would be wrong to assume that an ordinary soldier posts a video without any agenda, but the video he uploads makes the wars about people and personalities, not politics.


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An SQL repository can define multiple named item types. Each item type is defined by an item descriptor. You can define different kinds of objects with different item descriptors, and Oracle ATG Web Commerce manages them in a single repository. Each named type corresponds to an item descriptor, and each item descriptor corresponds to a
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MILWAUKEE -- Prior to Tuesday night's game against the Cubs, Brewers manager Ron Roenicke spoke about his team's offensive issues in the absence of Ryan Braun, Carlos Gomez and Corey Hart.
The Brewers found pop in the middle of their lineup Tuesday without their three injured stars, riding a five-run fifth inning to a 9-3 win against the National League Central-rival Cubs at Miller Park. Rickie Weeks hit two home runs and Juan Francisco added another, while Kyle Lohse battled through early trouble for seven innings of three-run ball.
The Brewers pounded out 11 hits, lessening the blow -- momentarily, at least -- of the likely loss of Gomez for this series, and Braun and Hart further and even further down the line.
The Brewers are 19-2 in their last 21 games against the Cubs at Miller Park, including nine wins in a row. They have won five of six meetings against Chicago this season.
"We got big hits," Roenicke said. "We've been talking about that, that we haven't done that for quite a while, and we're starting to get some big hits from the guys."
The Brewers scored only17 runs in their previous seven games, but got to Cubs starter Edwin Jackson for a five-spot in the fifth inning to turn a 3-1 deficit into a 6-3 lead.
Milwaukee batted around in the fifth, scoring three of their five runs with two out to chase Jackson. Weeks, Caleb Gindl, Jean Segura and Jonathan Lucroy notched RBI hits in the frame.
Weeks started the scoring with an RBI double into the left-center-field gap, scoring Francisco all the way from first base. He then took third on a Jackson wild pitch, and Gindl tied the game with his first Major League RBI, a liner up the middle past a diving Darwin Barney.
Lohse bunted Gindl to second before Norichika Aoki walked to set up a run-scoring double from Segura and a go-ahead, two-run single from Lucroy, putting Milwaukee ahead, 6-3.
Jackson threw 32 pitches in the fifth, leaving after Lucroy's two-out single with six hits and two runs to his name. Jackson, who signed a four-year, $52 million contract this offseason, took the loss to drop to 3-10.
"We just can't control some innings when they start going a little bad, whether it's fastball command," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. "Tonight, from the get-go, he didn't have much of a fastball. He averaged 92 mph. It's going to be tough for him to pitch with that velocity. It seems like innings get out of control and they turn into big, crooked numbers."
The Brewe''s big offseason signing fared better than Jackson. Lohse, who signed with the Brewers for three years and $33 million, worked around eight Chicago hits in seven innings for his fifth quality start in a row.
After allowing a three-run homer to Nate Schierholtz in the third, Lohse settled down for four straight scoreless frames. The right-hander allowed just three hits after Schierholtz's homer and threw 96 pitches, 70 for strikes to improve to 3-6.
"I had a rough May dealing with elbow and hamstring stuff," said Lohse, referring to two injuries that forced him to skip a start last month. "I feel like it's coming around. We're back doing the things that we consistently do, and it seems like it gives the team a chance every time I go out."
Meanwhile, the Brewers' offense was in the capable hands of Weeks, who dealt with his share of early-season struggles.
Weeks went opposite field for a two-run homer in the sixth, then belted a solo shot in the eighth inning to center field. They were the seventh and eighth home runs of the season, and gave him five this month.
Weeks is hitting .429 in June with five homers and nine RBIs, despite splitting time at second base with Scooter Gennett. He recorded a hit in his 17th straight start and brought his average up to .230, about where it ended last season.
"It's fun," Lohse said of watching Weeks. "That's him. He works hard every day trying to get his stuff right and it's good to see him enjoying the rewards for all the hard work he puts in."
"I've been feeling good for a while, little bit over a month now, probably," Weeks said. "But the biggest thing is when I do get the call, to go out there and do my job. A lot of things you can't control sometimes. When your name is called, you get up and do your job, so that's what I do."
Francisco put the Brewers on the board first with a high, towering solo home run just over the right-field fence. It was his seventh of the year and second with the Brewers.
The win moved the Brewers a game ahead of the Cubs in the NL Central, leaving Chicago alone in last place. Roenicke shied away from his team using motivation to stay out of the division's cellar.
"No, we're not worried about that," he said. "I'm not thinking that we should beat anybody unless we play a good game. I think every game is very important. We just lost a couple to Houston and you can't take these guys lightly.
"We're not battling for last place, we're battling to try and get back in this thing."


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Funny parrots, colourful orchids, playful monkeys - the jungle of the South Seas holds many secrets.
Just what the very young explorers up to1.40 m in height are looking for: here, they can explore caves, swing on hanging vines and dash through trees - all in the footsteps of Georg Forster, the German who sailed to the South Seas with British seafarer, James Cook.
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Dr. Penn founded the Psychological Services Center of the Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, which provides clinical training for PhD students in clinical psychology and offers free personal counseling to LIU students, in 1978 and she directed it until August, 2012. In addition to Dr. Penn teaching PhD level courses in the psychology department, from 1978-2012 she set and directed all administrative and clinical policies for the Center. Since September 2012, Dr. Penn has continued to teach full time in the clinical psychology doctoral program, supervise PhD students on their clinical work, be a member of dissertation committees, and has been an active member of the department on numerous committees including the personnel committee, admissions committee, student evaluation committee, and many additional ad hoc committees.
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VICTORIA — While Premier Christy Clark touts the promise of a new industry based on the export of liquefied natural gas, news reports continue to raise doubts about her ability to deliver on the multi-billion-dollar results.
"A sharp fall in European and Asian gas prices this year will put liquefied natural gas export projects worldwide under heavy cost pressure, and even kill some off, as expected returns on investments have to be revised down along with prices," said a Reuters report out of the United Kingdom last week.
The Wall Street Journal reached much the same conclusion in a story out of New York.
"The price of liquefied natural gas in Asia has plunged by nearly half over the past five months, to the lowest level in more than three years. Analysts say that if the price stays at current levels, Asian buyers may be less willing to commit to buying gas from planned billion-dollar export projects in the U.S., Canada and Australia."
Granted, multi-billion-dollar investments don't turn on short-term markets alone. "LNG buyers in Japan and South Korea typically make most of their purchases, accounting for around 80% of their needs, through long-term contracts at fixed prices," reported the Journal. "The remaining 20% is bought in the spot market, where prices fluctuate."
Still, as Reuters noted, quoting a project director for Royal Dutch Shell, LNG terminals "are extremely price-sensitive because the margins are so thin ... and only a small fraction of them will get built."
With several projects being put on hold for every one that goes ahead, it matters who goes first — a point underscored last week by a study out of the University of Calgary.
"Competitors may take the cake if B.C. is late to Asia's LNG party," was the headline on a summary of the report by my colleague Gordon Hoekstra Friday.
The report did not dispute the need for B.C. to develop alternatives to the slumping market for natural gas in the U.S. Nor did the half-dozen authors from the university's public policy school discount B.C. as a major exporter of LNG in the long run.
They did raise concerns about the province coming late to the game.
"Producers around the world — including in the newly gas-rich U.S. — are racing to lock up market share in the Asia-Pacific region, in many cases much more aggressively than Canada," they wrote. "There are more proposed LNG-export projects around the world than will be required to meet projected demand for the foreseeable future."
With B.C. behind schedule — the premier's promise to have the first terminal up and running by 2015 has already dissipated — the province risks missing the window of opportunity altogether in this investment round.
"LNG projects are feasible only on the basis of long-term contracts," said the report. "Once a piece of market share is acquired, it could be decades before it becomes available again."
Turning to the reasons for the holdup, the Albertans cited "the lack of policy and regulatory co-ordination, with disagreements between governments over standards, process and compensation for those stakeholders involved in the potential LNG industry. Issues as basic as taxing and royalty charges for gas shipments between provinces, and locating facilities and marine-safety standards, remain unsettled in Canada."
The report also faulted "plans to levy special taxes on LNG, a policy that could render many current proposals uncompetitive." The latter accusation marks the second time a representative of the public policy school has taken a shot on that score. In a piece published in the National Post earlier this year, the school's Jack Mintz (who is also, as he noted in the article, a director of Imperial Oil) suggested that the special LNG tax could "destroy the goose that lays the golden egg."
Another uncertainty was added to the mix on LNG by the recent recognition of aboriginal title by the Supreme Court of Canada, according to one of Premier Christy Clark's supporters in the business community.
"The decision exceeded the worst-case scenario of both governments and industry," wrote corporate veteran Gwyn Morgan Monday in his regular column in the Globe and Mail. "The court has, in effect, established a separate legal structure for aboriginals and non-aboriginals that has implications far beyond land entitlements."
The result, he went on to argue, is an open invitation to "investment-killing litigation" in resource-dependent B.C. — "a windfall for lawyers but economic poison for the country."
I put the foregoing concerns to the premier's go-to guy on the LNG file, Minister for Natural Gas Development Rich Coleman.
He disagreed that aboriginal title will be an investment-killer on LNG. As for the concern that B.C. is late coming to the table, the ever-optimistic Coleman noted that none of the dozen or so major proponents has yet walked away from investing in B.C.
"They are spending millions, they tell me we are getting it right, " he said. "I think we are on the right track, I really do."
Meaning, as he sees it, that the province will nail down a competitive tax regime in the fall, in expectations that at least one major proponent will make a favourable and final investment decision to proceed with an LNG terminal by the end of the year.
Place your bets. But both assertions are entirely checkable. So British Columbians should know soon enough whether this venture is the real thing, or just more gas.
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Has advertising become more effective in the digital age?29 April, 2014 | (01 hr)
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John Wanamaker, the 19th-century retailer, reportedly stated: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Recent research by Steven Tadelis (UC Berkeley) and co-authors suggest that the effectiveness of Internet advertising is far from straightforward to measure, and it is difficult to demonstrate cause and effect.
How do you make good business decisions about Internet advertising? This webcast will go into some of the salient features of this research and examine implications for substitution to other marketing channels and for other advertising decisions in large firms.
Who Should Attend: Professionals, business leaders, and managers in the fields of advertising, marketing, branding, and corporate communications
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Steve Tadelis is a professor of economics at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. From 2011 to 2013 he spent a two year leave at ebay Labs, where he put together and led a group of Economists who focus on the economics of e-commerce, with particular attention to creating better matches of buyers a...Full Bio
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On the Sunshine Coast, the only thing more refreshing than the water is the lifestyle. With its endless beaches, lush rainforests and easy smiles, it's a place where you will feel like a local from the moment you arrive.
Choose your patch of sand from over 100 kilometres of pristine coastline – stretching from Caloundra in the south to Noosa and the rainbow sands of the Cooloola coast in the north – and soak up the warm sunshine and laid-back atmosphere.
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Towns and villages are spread all along the Sunshine Coast, each with their own particular brand of charm.
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The Lord has given me plenty of reason to celebrate His goodness and lovingkindness.
Today I miss my parents , who now live in heaven and my family who all lives far from me. Oh how I wish everyone was physically present in this house.
People who come to visit me often ask me if I am ever afraid living alone. Does the darkness scare me? Do I feel lonely?
And I can honestly answer, No I have never once felt fearful or alarmed . I do feel lonely but not alone
The Lord' s presence is with me . His angels protect me. He sends help at the right time.
A few weeks ago when I was sick with viral fever , too ill to even get up and get a glass of water, I felt God 's hand holding me up during the long restless nights.
The Lord replied, 'My presence will go with you and I will give you rest." Exodus 33;14 NIV (BIBLE)
Listen to this song by Don Moen.
And now let the weak say I am strong
Let the poor say I am rich
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Music technology is already well on the way to future applications, like a "musical Google" in which the user can retrieve music files from the Internet simply by humming a melody or providing an audio sample.
As the demand grows, so does the complexity of the software to generate, manipulate, process, store and retrieve digitally encoded music.
Operations research offers much to music computing researchers such as pianist/engineer Elaine Chew, a 2007-08 Radcliffe Institute Fellow and associate professor in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California.
In her paper Math & Music: The Perfect Match, Chew described the advantages of an operations research approach to solving computational problems in music composition, analysis and performance.
Operations researchers use mathematics and computing tools to model complex problems in fields ranging from advertising to zoology in order to find optimal or feasible solutions. To model, study and assist humans in what they do in analyzing, composing, and performing music is a natural next step, Chew said.
"The field of music and computing has experienced unprecedented growth in recent years, spurred on by the pervasiveness of computing and widespread access to digital music information," Chew said. "Mathematical representations of music allow music knowledge to be encoded in computer-friendly terms, so that music computing researchers can design software to help us process and understand complex and vast amounts of music information."
Chew cited two music technologies already on the market: Shazam and Pandora.
Shazam allows users to retrieve details of a music recording based on an audio example that is dialed-in over the phone. Pandora will suggest new songs based on the user's current favorites. Interactive music games, in which a user might take on the persona of a rock star, are a perennial favorite.
Beyond the market-driven motivations for music and computing, mathematical and computational tools applied to music can help researchers discover important knowledge about human culture and creativity, including insights into how composers and performers experiment with, and decide on, new ideas. These scientific processes and discoveries are expected to impact fields such as musicology and neuroscience.
The article presented resources for learning more about this emerging field of mathematics and computation in music, including venues where music computing researchers convene and publish.
The article also cited open courseware and selected examples in automated music analysis, music composition and improvisation, and expressive performance, based on research projects at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Music Computation and Cognition Laboratory as well as related work.
A computational scientist on leave from USC, Chew designs mathematical models and computational techniques to analyze music and its performance. As a pianist, she performs a wide range of contemporary, eclectic music.