I (James Bergstra) am a Doctoral student in the
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the
University of Montreal .
My supervisor is Yoshua Bengio.
I am a member of the LISA .
For my Masters, I studied machine learning methods for music information retrieval from recordings.
My supervisor was Douglas Eck .
Here is a picture of me scowling at the camera.
Publications ,
Links .
I have been involved with some software projects:
Theano , a
mini-language within Python for optimized matrix math.
TamTam (
@laptop.org ,
@wordpress ), a
program for composing and playing with music on the OLPC .
libaudiofeat, a
library for computing audio features from PCM data. A small
demonstration application illustrates how to use this library in a
standalone feature extractor.
libmpg2pcm , a simple
MPEG audio decoder that uses libmad to make an MPEG audio source look like
a PCM audio source.
libpmv , a library of
matrix-vectorized math.h-ish routines. Includes a reference
implementation, and one optimized using AMD's libacml_mv.
Here are some things that I found interesting to read, mixed in with
things I found interesting to write.
Spread this number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
A Google tech-talk
by Douglas Eck
on Automatically tagging audio files using supervised learning on acoustic features ,
including some work I did for my Masters.
Bike Trip to St.Anne de Bellevue .
Also, check out the map .
Too much computer, not enough typewriter. .
Now that I have a macbook, I appreciate classic Strongbad just a
little more.
How I use my computer , me, updated June 29.
A Modest Proposal , Jonathan Swift, 1729. I hadn't read it...
Inferiority in Academia , C. George Boeree, 1990.
Captain Copyright : parody , brutal criticism.
A short, and futile letter in frustration to the Toronto
Dominion Bank , on the subject of FREE Service , and their quick response , that left me feeling immature.
The Graduate Student Guide to Automatic Weapons ,
and other writing by Olin Shivers
An edited correspondance with a friend, on the topic of How I'd buy a laptop .
Bruce Perens has written an article on the economic impact of
Open Source software. The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source
I maintain one of the few pages on the web with a link to the May 2005 AudioScrobbler Database Dump .
Last.fm no longer publishes their data on the internet for free.
I don't know anything about photography, except that I like
doing it sometimes. These are some pictures I've taken with my Canon A75 .
These are some recordings that we've made here in the GAMME lab.
Crazy talk , Live and learn, bitches!
Contact info:
address: Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Université de Montréal, 3234 Chemin de la Tour, Local 3336
lab: (514) 343 - 6111 x 1794
email: username@iro.umontreal.ca, with username = bergstrj.