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❤️ Timico 😭

"Timico is an Information Technology Managed Services provider in the United Kingdom. Company overview Timico gained a top 10 place in The Sunday Times Tech Track Fastest Growing Companies list, and in 2009 were ranked 7th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. Timico was founded by Tim Radford who previously ran Project Telecom, a mobile service provider which was sold to Vodafone in 2003 for £162m. The company moved into purpose built offices in Newark-on- Trent, Nottinghamshire, in January 2007, from the Chairman's family barns, which previously housed the company. Timico announced its intention to float the company on the Alternative Investment Market in May 2014, but later abandoned these plans citing poor market sentiment. Timico was confirmed as the new sponsor of the Cheltenham Gold Cup in December 2015. Timico appointed Ben Marnham as the new Chief Executive Officer on 1 September 2016. Timico appointed Neil Muller as the new Chief Executive Officer on 5 November 2018, he joins John Holt as the Chief Operations Office and Ben Savage as the MD Sales & Marketing Acquisition history Timico has acquired nine smaller companies including business ISPs, a managed IT service provider, unified communications provider and a mobile applications specialist. *2004 – Atlas Internet which has been consolidated into Timico *2009 – KeConnect and Twang which have been consolidated. Twang was acquired at £1,625,000Timico Technology Group 2008 Accounts *2010 – NewNet which now forms its Partner Services division – Acquired for £2,350,000.Timico Technology Group 2009 Accounts Newnet operates an access network utilising Local-loop unbundling from 11 exchanges in and around Fareham *2010 - Handheld PCs – a business which specialised in media capture software for mobile devices which was acquired for £400,000Timico Technology Group 2010 Accounts has been consolidated into Timico *2011 – Powernet which was consolidated into Timico in December 2013 and now forms its Managed Networks division *2012 - Redwood Telecommunications which was acquired for an undisclosed sum. Redwood was consolidated into Timico in June 2013 and now forms its Unified Communications division *2015 - Wirebird, a managed services and IT consultancy business, which was acquired for an undisclosed sum and was rebranded Timico Technology Services in March 2015 *2015 - Coms which was acquired for £2.5M and comprised the brands ADSL24, Actimax, CloudXL and Universal. It has been fully consolidated into Timico *2018 - 25SevenIT a managed services and IT consultancy business, which was acquired for an undisclosed sum in November 2018. Newark data centre Work began in 2011 to build a £7M combined office and data centre to cope with business expansion and new virtualised hosting services. The facility was officially opened by Newark MP Patrick Mercer on 18 January 2012. The opening ceremony was included in an ITV Central news article about cloud computing. Broadcast on 19 January 2012 at 18.00GMT. The tier three facility contains two 2,000 square foot data halls, each with 72 racks for co-location. Virtualised computing and storage is provided by Cisco’s Unified Computing System and EMC’s VNX platform. Network infrastructure utilises a Juniper MX80 IP Switching platform with 10Gbit/s fibre internet connectivity. The Duke of Kent visited the facility in September 2013. Chancellor George Osborne also toured the data centre and met technical apprentices while campaigning for the 2014 Newark by-election. Blogging and publicity Timico's former CTO Trefor Davies, a prolific blogger, has employed unusual tactics to highlight internet industry issues and causes including using a pigeon to highlight the problem of slow broadband speeds in Lincolnshire in September 2010. On 5 January 2012 an attempt to beat the world record for the most number of comments on an online news article in 24 hours ran in support of the RNLI. More than 5,000 unique comments were made, but following verification from the Guinness World Records it was confirmed this did not beat the official world record, which is held by a Japanese recording artist who achieved more than 56,800 comments to his blog in 2011. Trefor left Timico on 20 December 13 to develop his blog into a commercial venture. References Internet service providers of the United Kingdom Companies based in Nottinghamshire "

❤️ International Society for Music Information Retrieval 😭

"The International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is an international forum for research on the organization of music-related data. It started as an informal group steered by an ad hoc committee in 2000Donald Byrd and Michael Fingerhut: The History of ISMIR - A Short Happy Tale. D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 8 No. 11, . which established a yearly symposium - whence "ISMIR", which meant International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval. It was turned into a conference in 2002 while retaining the acronym. ISMIR was incorporated in Canada on July 4, 2008.ISMIR Letters Patent. Canada, July 4, 2008. Purpose Given the tremendous growth of digital music and music metadata in recent years, methods for effectively extracting, searching, and organizing music information have received widespread interest from academia and the information and entertainment industries. The purpose of ISMIR is to provide a venue for the exchange of news, ideas, and results through the presentation of original theoretical or practical work. By bringing together researchers and developers, educators and librarians, students and professional users, all working in fields that contribute to this multidisciplinary domain, the conference also serves as a discussion forum, provides introductory and in-depth information on specific domains, and showcases current products. As the term Music Information Retrieval (MIR) indicates, this research is motivated by the desire to provide music lovers, music professionals and 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. Annual conferences Since its inception in 2000, ISMIR has been the world’s leading forum for research on the modelling, creation, searching, processing and use of musical data. Researchers across the globe meet at the annual conference conducted by the society. It is known by the same acronym as the society, ISMIR. Following is the list of previous conferences held by the society. * ISMIR 2021, 8-12 November 2021, Bangalore (India) * ISMIR 2020, 12-16 October 2020, Montreal (Canada) * ISMIR 2019, 4-8 November 2019, Delft (The Netherlands) * ISMIR 2018, 23–27 September 2018, Paris (France) * ISMIR 2017, 23–27 October 2017, Suzhou (China) proceedings * ISMIR 2016, 8–12 August 2016, New York City (USA) proceedings * ISMIR 2015, 26–30 October 2015, Malaga (Spain) proceedings * ISMIR 2014, 27–31 October 2014, Taipei (Taiwan) proceedings * ISMIR 2013, 4–8 November 2013, Curitiba (Brazil) proceedings * ISMIR 2012, 8–12 October 2012, Porto (Portugal) proceedings * ISMIR 2011, 24–28 October 2011, Miami (USA) proceedings * ISMIR 2010, 9–13 August 2010, Utrecht (The Netherlands) proceedings * ISMIR 2009, 26–30 October 2009, Kobe (Japan) proceedings * ISMIR 2008, 14–18 September 2008, Philadelphia (USA) proceedings * ISMIR 2007, 23–30 September 2007, Vienna (Austria) proceedings * ISMIR 2006, 8–12 October 2006, Victoria, BC (Canada) proceedings * ISMIR 2005, 11–15 September 2005, London (UK) proceedings * ISMIR 2004, 10–15 October 2004, Barcelona (Spain) proceedings * ISMIR 2003, 26–30 October 2003, Baltimore, Maryland (USA) proceedings * ISMIR 2002, 13–17 October 2002, Paris (France) proceedings * ISMIR 2001, 15–17 October 2001, Bloomington, Indiana (USA) proceedings * ISMIR 2000, 23–25 October 2000, Plymouth, Massachusetts (USA) proceedings The official webpage provides a more up-to-date information on past and future conferences and provides access to all past websites and to the cumulative database of all papers, posters and tutorials presented at these conferences. An overview of all papers published at ISMIR can be found at DBLP. Research areas and topics The following list gives an overview of the main research areas and topics that are within the scope of Music Information Retrieval. =MIR data and fundamentals= music signal processing * symbolic music processing * metadata, linked data and semantic web * social tags and user generated data * natural language processing, text and web mining * multi-modal approaches to MIR =Methodology= methodological issues and philosophical foundations * evaluation methodology * corpus creation * legal, social and ethical issues =Domain knowledge= representation of musical knowledge and meaning * music perception and cognition * computational music theory * computational musicology and ethnomusicology =Musical features and properties= melody and motives * harmony, chords and tonality * rhythm, beat, tempo * structure, segmentation and form * timbre, instrumentation and voice * musical style and genre * musical affect, emotion and mood * expression and performative aspects of music =Music processing= sound source separation * music transcription and annotation * optical music recognition * alignment, synchronization and score following * music summarization * music synthesis and transformation * fingerprinting * automatic classification * indexing and querying * pattern matching and detection * similarity metrics =Application= user behavior and modelling * user interfaces and interaction * digital libraries and archives * music retrieval systems * music recommendation and playlist generation * music and health, well-being and therapy * music training and education * MIR applications in music composition, performance and production * music and gaming * MIR in business and marketing MIREX The Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) is an annual evaluation campaign for MIR algorithms, coupled to the ISMIR conference. Since it started in 2005, MIREX has fostered advancements both in specific areas of MIR and in the general understanding of how MIR systems and algorithms are to be evaluated. MIREX is to the MIR community what the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) is to the text information retrieval community: A set of community- defined formal evaluations through which a wide variety of state-of-the-art systems, algorithms and techniques are evaluated under controlled conditions. MIREX is managed by the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC). Related conferences ACM Multimedia * International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) * International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) * International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx) * International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) * International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR) * Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) Related journals Computer Music Journal (CMJ) * EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing * IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP) * IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) * Music Perception * Journal of New Music Research (JNMR) See also Audio Engineering Society * Music Technology * Sound and Music Computing References External links * Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Music information retrieval Computer science conferences Music technology Multimedia Information retrieval organizations Music search engines "

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