MÚ́SICA VIVA FESTIVAL CELEBRATES FOURTEEN SEASONS

What's Past is Prologue: Celebrating 40 Seasons of Idaho Shakespeare Festival

Studio Report: Digitópia at Casa da Música

Digital music making is evolving dramatically with today's increasing availability of free music software and musical content. Digitópia, a platform for collaborative music creation recently started at Casa da Música, Porto's main concert venue, addresses how these trends can affect generalized music creation and music software design, promote social inclusion, and lead to the emergence of mult...

Computer Celebrates NASA's 50th Anniversary

E stablished in October 1958, NASA is celebrating its 50th anniversary. A significant fraction of Computer’s readers are old enough to remember the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first men on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. We have witnessed the space shuttle era and the building of the International Space Station and have watched with keen interest the results of unmanned missions...

Zanya: Composior Evolutivo de Música Virtual

Aplicando teorías fractales, el científico Richard F. Voss[2], ha hecho desarrollo musical informático, obteniendo compositores verdaderamente hermosos. En su trabajo ha desarrollado generadores de ruido browniano, ruido blanco y resalta uno que genera música muy agradable, que se denomina ruido 1/f[5], que de acuerdo a algunos estudios que ha realizado, música como el jazz, la clásica, el blue...

The Viva File System

This paper describes the Viva File System or VIFS, a technique for highperformance file allocation on disks. VIFS uses bitmaps to represent both free blocks on the disk and allocated blocks in each file. Allocation bitmaps provide a very fast method of finding blocks close to the last allocated block in a file. Fragments (partial blocks) are used to store the overflow from the last file block; ...