Hello from Geoff

Hi everyone! I'm an undergrad student from Simon Fraser University in computing science and business. I'm really looking forward to participating in this conference, both as a student volunteer blogger, and a presenter at the Intelligent Systems Demonstrations that are happening on Tuesday evening (July 12th). As a musician, I'm especially interested in the application of Artificial Intelligence to music, and our group's demo, Song Search by Tapping, reflects that. Our supervisor at SFU is Dr. Diana Cukierman.

I'm also really looking forward to attending the tutorial sessions on Saturday and Sunday of the conference (July 9th & 10th). Word sense disambiguation is an area I am interested in, especially applied to natural language of web pages. I am also going to attend sessions on Market Clearing Algorithms, Empirical Methods for Artificial Intelligence, and Intelligent User Interfaces.

I'm honoured to be part of this blogging group, among those with such diverse and fascinating interests. I look forward to meeting you all!

On a different note, does anyone know of some good places to check out for live jazz in Pittsburgh?