i am home for the next week for october break, vassar's fall semester equivalent of spring break, which has proven again to be a nice respite after a grueling semester (this time, with the added pleasures of a doubly long assignment in quantum mechanics). i recently returned from a visit to rpi, and after speaking with the professors and students, realized that i probably will end up applying for the phd after all. as one student i met remarked "once you start working, you will want to go back to school." so i think i'm going to bite the bullet and go for it.

while i was at rpi, i spoke to dr. jonas braasch, who got me interested in pursuing intelligent signal processing and intelligent spaces (after relating to him about my summer research in musical ai).  little research has been done in the field of intelligent spaces, which to my knowledge is the design of spaces (performance spaces in particular) that incorporate performance evaluation and intelligent systems to modify the sound within a room in real-time. that, at best, is a bare bones description: i am merely trying to gather my initial thoughts on the subject because it may be something worth pursuing in the future, maybe as a dissertation.

some searching led me to a paper on intelligent systems for structural acoustic control. i also found a book on intelligent signal processing, which suggests that it could be used for speech processing, pattern recognition, and signal detection. maybe we could design a room that modifies its acoustic response, diffusion, or reverberation time based on real-time speech processing...

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