IRFS Weeknotes #107
Despite (or maybe because of) the short week, we're deep in the trenches at the moment, as some of our research draws to a close whilst other projects get almost enough clarity to start properly. Duncan continued work with the TV Whitespace project - working on streamlining the codebase, moving the demonstrator to new servers, and updating the dataset. Chris Newell has written a blog post about our client-side recommender module which we will be using to explore interactive recommender systems later in the year. And Andrew continued work on the ABC-IP tagging experiment - it's almost ready for the trial to begin - while he and others have also been working out the features that the public prototype will have.
Back in London after a stimulating first "Connected Studio" event last Friday in Salford, Olivier participated in a really good team workshop on "one service, many devices" with Sean, Chris Needham and others. Unsurprisingly, his suggestion that direct brain stimulation may be the future of immersive media raised a few eyebrows. Other ideas were a little more applicable. Olivier's also been preparing for the upcoming W3C Advisory Committee meeting, the bi-annual assembly where the direction of the consortium is debated and proposed new work gets discussed, and working with colleagues to draft a paper for an upcoming workshop on
This week has been gloriously intense on the audio front: after many months of near-deadlock with two competing spec proposals, . Chris Lowis took Pete's user interface work on our project using this Audio API, along with documentation for some of our other prototypes, and deployed them. And Chris L, Matt and Chris Needham welcomed Frank Melchior, head of Audio Research in R&D, to the office on Friday to compare ideas and projects. They had a good session looking at turning one of the (many!) ideas we didn't have space for in our current plan into a potential proposal for the Audio Research Partnership.
Dan's happy as the FI-Content Chrome extension is now ready for internal testing. It's making use of some of Chrome's more bleeding-edge properties (IndexedDB, HTML5 FileSystem) and Pete's been hard at work on the UI and UX for it. Meanwhile Chris Needham's been planning the next stage of work for FI-Content, looking at methods of authentication on a smart TV.
I spent 2 days at a workshop explaining and listening to some of the thinking around the then back in the office for a compressed session of meetings and exciting admin. We had a visit from Robin Cooksey of Frontier Silicon. Robin, Libby and I had a fruitful discussion on extracting authentication from the RadioTAG spec and tightening up the RadioDNS specification of time! Then I shuttled off to a conference to explain some of the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s R&D about IP video and hear some contemporary academic research into this.
This week's links:
A couple of good blog posts on the connected studio last week:
- makes a change from dry slides about CPU usage.
so you can see how they change through the day.
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