Call to action 2: help newcomers to our community feel welcomed! We're crowdsourcing an 'ISMIR for dummies' manual at annuel.framapad.org/p/ismir_for_du…. Please contribute, based on your experiences at #ismir2018 or past ISMIRs!

Proud to present 'Beyond Explicit Reports: Comparing Data-Driven Approaches to Studying Underlying Dimensions of Music Preference' at #umap2019. 1st joint paper by my PhD students Jaehun Kim @a_m_demetriou Sandy Manolios, explicitly fostering their multidisciplinary expertises!

Yay! "The Influence of Personal Values on Music Taste: Towards Value-Based Music Recommendations" by Sandy Manolios Alan Hanjalic and yours truly got accepted as short paper to #RecSys2019! Very excited about this for multiple reasons. (1) It's Sandy's first first-author work;

Industry colleagues in Music-IR/creative industries/applied AI/multimedia search & recommendation: please note our call for ISMIR 2019 sponsorship ismir2019.ewi.tudelft.nl/?q=sponsorship and also consider participating in the post-conference Meetup with Industry: ismir2019.ewi.tudelft.nl/?q=meetup-with…!

Ever felt like an outsider at a conference ? Want to make sure nobody at #ISMIR2019 feels this way ? Help us welcome #ISMIR newcomers by contributing to the “ISMIR for Dummies” handbook, a guide through ISMIR community and conference at : annuel.framapad.org/p/ismir_for_du…

New to #ismir2019 ? We are crowdsourcing a guide to the conference and the #ISMIR community just for you! 😄 Feel free to write your questions, concerns or ask clarifications of mysterious wordings here: annuel.framapad.org/p/ismir_for_du…

Forget Amsterdam, visit the prettiest town in the Netherlands instead: telegraph.co.uk/travel/destina…. We agree & can't wait to share Delft with you! Also just soaked up all the sun near the conference venue, so you'll get to experience more typical Dutch weather these coming days ;)

Are We Really Making Much Progress? A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches |. Streaming live for the best paper RecSys'2019. youtu.be/JlLHIrzrmi4 via YouTube

Today at #ismir2020, session 6: two more TU Delft EEMCS papers! Check out '"Butter Lyrics Over Hominy Grit": Comparing Audio and Psychology-based Text Features in MIR Tasks' by Jaehun Kim @a_m_demetriou Sandy Manolios and Stella Musixmatch AI : program.ismir2020.net/poster_6-12.ht…