Artist Versus Science

The Artist of Computer

A short account of the contributions of Donald E. Knuth to the eld of computer science is given, with emphasis on his classical text The Art of Computer Programming. Also discussed are his development of the T E X typesetting system, the LR parser and attribute grammar.

The happy artist ?

The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that artistic work might result in exceptionally high job satisfaction, a conjecture that has been mentioned at...

Science Versus Stigma

Science Versus Stigma Stigma is an enormous obstacle to more effective drug abuse treatment. Widespread perceptions that addiction strips individuals of basic human qualities lead to selffulfilling predictions that those who are addicted cannot recover or ever play positive and productive social roles. Two articles in this issue of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice illustrate a fundamental ...

Science versus the Mountain

Master’s Thesis in Computer Science: Recognizing artist ambiguity with machine learning techniques

Spotify is a music streaming service whose ambition is to offer everyone easy access to all of the world’s music. Maintaining metadata quality is a a nontrivial challenge considering that the catalogue size rules out the possibility for manual curation and that the number of content providers and different delivery formats is large. An interesting problem that involves metadata is to have a one...