News from the Mudd

Those wacky electrical engineers and computer scientists at the University of California at San Diego are at it again. They're working on creating a "Google for music." The idea is for people who are not music experts to be able to call up songs matching their parameters using natural language. One big stumbling block is creating words that are universally meaningful and useful when describing music. One person's Barry Manilow may be "intensely meaningful" while another's may be "gag-inducing."
Read about it on the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering web site.