UK Autumn School–Software Carpentry for Audio and Music Researchers

Outreach

The aim of this one-week Autumn School (London, UK, 1-5 November 2010) is to train PhD students and researchers in the software development skills required to build reliable research software quickly and with a minimum of effort, and so maximize the impact of their research.

The Autumn School is presented by Dr. Greg Wilson in collaboration with SoundSoftware.ac.uk: Sustainable Software for Audio and Music Research.

Update: The Autumn School 2010 is now over; read a report here and watch video footage here!

Further Information

Software development is a fundamental part of much audio and music research, yet PhD students and young researchers are typically not taught how to build the software they need for their research in an efficient, systematic way. Instead, they have to learn for themselves how to build, validate, maintain, and share complex programs, which can lead to big problems later, when others try to build on their research.

The Autumn School is based on Greg Wilson’s highly regarded “Software Carpentry” course, tailored for researchers in the audio and music research field. Since 1997, Software Carpentry has taught scientists the concepts and skills they need to use computers more effectively in their research. This training has consistently had an immediate impact on participants’ productivity by making their current work less onerous, and new kinds of work feasible.

Course content includes:

Program design
Version control
Task automation
Agile development
Provenance and reproducibility
Maintenance and integration
User interface construction
Testing and validation

Location

The workshop will be held in the Brunei Gallery.

For more information on Software Carpentry, visit http://software-carpentry.org.

Online support will be available, to handle questions or problems that arise after the Autumn School. The course is also planned to be available in future for distance learning.

This Autumn School is organized by “SoundSoftware.ac.uk”, an EPSRC-funded project promoting sustainable software for audio and music research.

Watch this space!

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Recent notes

MLSP Prizes for Reproducibility: Winners announced!

Announcing the winners of the MLSP 2014 and SoundSoftware.ac.uk Prizes for Reproducibility in Signal Processing, organised by SoundSoftware.ac.uk in conjuction with the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the 2014 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing.

SoundSoftware 2014: Videos now available!

The SoundSoftware 2014 workshop, our third annual workshop on software and data in audio and music research, was just as enjoyable as the previous two. Because so much research in this field ends up being expressed through software, a software workshop turns out to be all about the means by which research becomes useful and relevant to people other than the original researchers—fertile ground for interesting and thought-provoking talks.

The workshop videos are now available online at http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/soundsoftware2014, so if you weren't able to make it in person, catch up here!

Our third annual one-day workshop on Software and Data for Audio and Music Research takes place on the 8th of July 2014 at Queen Mary, University of London. The workshop includes talks on issues such as robust software development for audio and music research, reproducible research in general, management of research data, and open access. Read more here, clear your calendar, and register now!