USMIR & ISMIR 2010

This August wasn't really vacation time like it usually is. It was quite a lot of work (but a great work). I was attending the Utrecht Summer School on Music Information Retrieval (USMIR) and International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR).

USMIR was summer school that I actually attended and didn't help with organisation. It was my second international summer school on my research topics and I have to say it was great. I have learned several new things that will surely help me with my research and completion of ma MSc. thesis, but the most important thing is meeting new people and people that work in same field as you. It's great feeling.

ISMIR was great as well. There were many interesting research works presented during very interesting poster sessions and we had many great chats with people from all over the globe, the people whose work you read about in all the articles and people that are doing same work on the other side of the planet. It's amazing feeling to get in touch with those people and exchange experiences and ideas that will help you on what you are doing. Hope to get to the next ISMIR as well.