An inspirational conference

How to preserve inspirational environments

Cultural memory of local artists and poets is typically cultivated through festivals devoted to these people usually by way of commemorations on the anniversaries of their deaths, and are held in places in which they lived and worked. These methods, however, are intangible and if not passed to next generations may be lost or forgotten. What is more, they do not help to protect from oblivion the...

Inspiration from inspirational cell biologists

This year Molecular Biology of the Cell is publishing two special issues, this award issue and a second “quantitative biology” issue. In the award issue, MBoC’s tradition of publishing essays by ASCB award winners continues. These highly accomplished individuals inspire us with engaging stories of their lives and careers and share with us their considerable wisdom. The diversity of the career p...

Enrico Drioli: A Professor with a Vision and an Inspirational Leader

Visioning in the brain: an fMRI study of inspirational coaching and mentoring.

Effective coaching and mentoring is crucial to the success of individuals and organizations, yet relatively little is known about its neural underpinnings. Coaching and mentoring to the Positive Emotional Attractor (PEA) emphasizes compassion for the individual's hopes and dreams and has been shown to enhance a behavioral change. In contrast, coaching to the Negative Emotional Attractor (NEA), ...

Music Information Retrieval: An Inspirational Guide to Transfer from Related Disciplines

The emerging field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) has been influenced by neighboring domains in signal processing and machine learning, including automatic speech recognition, image processing and text information retrieval. In this contribution, we start with concrete examples for methodology transfer between speech and music processing, oriented on the building blocks of pattern recogni...