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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Gil Weinberg, director of the Georiga Tech Center for Music Technology is at the forefront of the cutting-edge research field of robotic musicianship. His latest marimba-playing robot, Shimon, can listen to and analyze melodic music and improvise with human players, providing visual and social cues to its co-players and audiences. Shimon has been invited to dozens of concerts world wide and was featured in Georgia Tech’s fall 2010 public service announcement (available at http://www.gatech.edu/music/).
Weinberg has been invited to present Shimon and other research from the GTCMT at the 41st annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, in January 2011.
