UROP Newsletter: Undergraduate Researcher Profile
Ash, Andrew. “Undergraduate Researcher Profile”. 10 Aug 2009.
At the request of the Office of Undergraduate Research, I have written a profile about my research for publication in the August 2009 UROP Newsletter. In this article I take an informal approach to the story of how I become involved in music technology research at Georgia Tech.
Abstract: Content-Based Recommendation on Indian Music
Ash, Andrew. “Applying Content-Based Recommendation to Indian Music”. 25 Feb 2009.
Now a few months into the project, our research group has implemented a preliminary recommendation algorithm based on GMMs of MFCCs. We then compare these distributions with Earth Mover’s Distance, store these distances in a MySQL database and present them to the user with a PHP/HTML/CSS/JS front-end. This 250-word abstract is my submission for the 2009 UROP Spring Symposium and is a brief overview of the work we have done thus far.
Research Proposal: Content-Based Recommendation on Indian Classical Music
Ash, Andrew. “Applying Content-Based Recommendation to Indian Classical Music”. 20 Oct 2008.
Every year, more music is produced than any single person can ever have the chance to hear. Sifting through all that music is an insurmountable challenge, so in the pursuit of a fresh sound many audiophiles spend more time listening to mediocrity than masterpieces. One of the largest obstacles to the growth of the music industry is the music discovery problem: what can be done to help consumers find the music they enjoy without having them subjected to everything else? In this Research Proposal I present the problem of Content-Based Recommendation as it applies to Indian Classical Music and give an overview of the work that will be done with Georgia Tech’s CBR project.
iCity: The Sustainable City
Ash, Andrew et al. “iCity: The Sustainable City”. 13 Dec 2007.
As human society continues growing at an exponential rate, there will reach a time in the future at which the earth’s finite resources cannot sustain our race. Working to prevent this downfall is the issue of sustainability, a hot topic in today’s energy-thirsty culture. In this paper, the Fall 2007 ISyE 4833 class presents, under the tutelage of T. Govindaraj, a model for a city designed to minimize the effects of civilization on its environment.
Artificial Sweeteners
Ash, Andrew. “The Artificial Sweetener”. 10 Dec 2007.
What’s with our society’s fascination with the alternative sweetener? For years now, the search for sugar’s replacement has been steadily marching forward, as Sweet’N Low, Equal, Splenda, and NutraSweet crowd grocery store shelves. In this paper, I examine the economics, nutrition, and rhetoric of artificial sweeteners for Ron Broglio in English 1102.
Rhetoric in the Meat Debate
Ash, Andrew. “Rhetoric in the Meat Debate”. 12 Nov 2007.
Rights and the decision of who deserves which ones has been an ongoing debate since the Code of Hammurabi was written around 1780 B.C. In the ever-ongoing expansion of the definition of rights, now some animals are being given rights that include the right to a pleasant death. And increasingly popular vegetarianism makes the push for and against the consumption of meat a point of contention in popular culture. In this paper, I analyze the rhetoric employed by both sides in the meat debate.
Rhetoric in the GMO Debate
Ash, Andrew. “Rhetoric in the GMO Debate”. 12 Oct 2007.
Science and technology increase at an ever-rapidly accelerating rate. The response of our culture to increased levels of technology is quite varied: some areas meeting more resistance than others. In this paper, I analyze the effect that rhetoric has in the debate about Genetically Modified Organisms.