Twenty years forward

Twenty years forward.

Twenty Years of Ircam Spat: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Ircam Spat is a software suite dedicated to sound spatialization and artificial reverberation. This paper traces the evolution of the software during the last few years and presents its current state with a focus on the newly available features. 1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Ircam’s Spatialisateur (commonly referred to as Spat∼) is a tool dedicated to real-time sound spatialization and artificial re...

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Twenty years of technology.

In looking back at previous issues of RNA and my own eight RNA papers, what strikes me, in addition to all the great science that’s been published in our society journal over the past 20 years, is the evolution (or more properly, revolution!) in the methods and technologies we use. Equally striking has been the exponential increase in the amount of data in each published paper. In two decades, ...

Twenty years of marriages.

In 1994, a total of 159,959 marriages were performed in Canada, up only slightly from 159,316 the year before. This small increase had no effect on the crude marriage rate, which remained at 5.5 marriages per 1,000 population. Aside from a brief uptum in the late 1980s, Canada's marriage rate has fallen quite steadily since the early 1970s. The overall decline is also evident when rates are dis...