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Dear everyone,

Starting in the early afternoon, Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 we will be celebrating the career of Barry Vercoe.

For those of you who cannot attend the party in person, we are trying to set up a webcast of the talks and the toast (approx. 2:30pm - 6:30pm ET). The video recording will be archived for later viewing as well. We will also try to set up a Skype session for those of you who want to wish Barry (approx. 6:30pm ET).

We will post more information on the following website on how to connect with us (as soon as we get more information):
http://sound.media.mit.edu/events/bv_050510.html

The event will be held on the 6th floor of the new Media Lab building (E14, 75 Amherst St) in Cambridge, MA.

Schedule:

2pm, Winter Garden: arrival; coffee and tea available

2:30pm, Lecture Hall: talks

Tentative schedule:
2:30 - Judy Brown & Mihir Sarkar (MIT)
2:45 - Miller Puckette (UCSD)
3:10 - Hubert Howe (Queen's College, CUNY)
3:25 - Dan Ellis (Columbia University)
3:40 - Michael Casey (Dartmouth)
3:55 - Youngmoo Kim (Drexel)
4:10 - Paris Smaragdis (Adobe)
4:25 - Richard Boulanger (Berklee College of Music/Csound)
5:00 - Brian Whitman (The Echo Nest)

5:30pm, Winter Garden: toast to Barry, short speeches by faculty; karaoke; Skype with remote participants

6:30pm, Winter Garden: dinner

Warm regards,

- Judy & Wu-Hsi & Mihir & Sandy & Brian