Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died.

Dear friends, We announce with great sadness that our brother, James Prime, passed away this morning after a short struggle with cancer. Thank you so much for the messages of support that you shared over the last two weeks, they meant so much to Jim, his family and us. With love, Deacon Blue

Deacon Blue was my first proper gig, December 89. Raintown was one of the first albums I knew and loved from beginning to end. And the opening keyboard of the title track will always be the sound of Glasgow . So many other memories. RIP James Prime.

The victim was John Sutherland, the 86-year-old literature professor. The burly man who broke his ribs was a policeman. This strange case raises important questions, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

Farewell and applause to Brian Wilson, who wrote and performed one of the finest finest pop songs ever written: Good Vibrations It's apotheosis on Smile... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN5H...

Sly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82

RIP Uriah Rennie a Sheffield lad a Wednesdayite great Ref but more importantly a lovely bloke

Tree down on in King George V park in Edinburgh, on a bit of a slope! Windy day!

Release fifty years ago yesterday!! Elton John – Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy - www.discogs.com/master/30569...

Bob Dylan 84 today!

Sad news of a great Guardian reporter: Duncan Campbell, a colleague who exposed police corruption, knew all the best criminals, and wrote with so much wit (and charisma) has died

First math pope since Sylvester II. (999–1003)

first math pope?

Congratulations to Catherine Lai, @catlai.bsky.social , who has been promoted to Reader at the University of Edinburgh!!!

And congratulations to Lexi, who I have heard has just been promoted to Professor at University of Edinburgh!!!

RIP David Thomas 🙏

Former Australia Test opener Keith Stackpole dies, aged 84, after a dynamic career including seven centuries and a brilliant Ashes double ton.

RIP Barry Hoban who has died at the age of 84. He rode the Tour de France 12 times and won eight stages. Also won Vuelta stages, Gent-Wevelgem, the GP Midi Libre, the Henninger Turm and more. Pictured here on the left here with team leader Raymond Poulidor

Richard and Linda Thompson - Hokey Pokey Also came out about 50 years ago. Really excellent- think it was the 2nd one they did? upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...

Also 50 years ago Bob Seger - Beautiful Loser en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautif...

50 years ago! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_Ri...

It is with profound sadness that we relay news of the passing of our beloved friend and bandmate Clem Burke following a private battle with cancer. (1/7)

RIP Clem Burke, a magnificent rock (and disco) drummer. The isolated drums of "Dreaming," which are essentially non-stop fills for the entire track--genius. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xse...

Some in the Edinburgh Botanist today

Rest In Peace Roberta Flack

Bill Fay. My hero, my confidant, my teacher, my inspiration… what an astonishing blessing to have found you, and to have known you. I miss you already my dear, dear friend. 💔

Bill Fay RIP. Some great stuff 50 odd years ago and again 5-15 years ago. Life Is People such a great record

Rick Buckler RIP

Macmillan Cancer Support cuts quarter of staff and scraps hardship scheme

Royal Botanic Gardens Storm Damage Appeal:

Was at the funeral of Colin Rourke yesterday, a wonderful person and a great Mathematician, who also had a love of Music and of Mending! And an amazing family! warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/math...

17/ SpeechWave (2018-2022) - I ended working (health reasons) during the second half of this project (and during the US project previously discussed). SpeechWave was with Zoran Cvetkovic of KCL, and Peter Bell at CSTR. The project was about ASR using raw waveforms. (1/2) gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...

16/ Systems for Cross-Language Information Processing, Translation, and Summarization (2017-2022) - US project, led by Kathleen McKeown at Columbia U, with Peter Bell and Kenneth Heafield at Edinburgh, leading work on ASR and translation for different languages. (1/2) apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/p...

#Breaking: Garth Hudson, the last living member of The Band, dead at 87

15/ SUMMA (2016-2019) - This EU project aimed to improve media monitoring by automating the analysis of media streams across many languages, aggregating & distilling the content, to create rich knowledge bases, and to provide data visualisations. (1/3) www.bbc.co.uk/rdnewslabs/p...

50 years since the release of Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks on this day in 1975. There were several great albums released in 2 1975, but Blood on the Tracks may well be the best (as well as one of the earliest of the year). Indeed, one of the best ever….

14/ ROCKIT (2013-2015) - This was another EU project managed through CSTR by Jean Carletta and me. ROCKIT involved investigating strategic roadmapping for research and innovation in the areas of natural conversational interaction. (1/2) cordis.europa.eu/project/id/6...

13/ EU Bridge (2012-2015) - An EU project about developing automatic transcription and translation services for European languages. At Edinburgh joint with Philipp Koehn and colleagues; our speech work included developing systems for the IWSLT evaluations. (1/3) www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/projects/...

12/ uDialogue (2011-2017) - This project was led at CSTR by Junichi Yamagishi, and was part of the large project at Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan, developed and led by Keiichi Tokuda. (1/2) www.udialogue.org

11/ InEVENT (2011-2014) - EU project where the Edin part was largely developed by Jean Carletta and me. The first research at CSTR to involve Catherine Lai (@catlai.bsky.social); sadly, it was also the last project to involve Fergus McInnes, who died in 2014. (1/3) www.idiap.ch/webarchives/...

10/ Natural Speech Technology (NST)(2011-2016) - NST involved universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Sheffield. This large EPSRC project had about 15 people involved in Edinburgh alone, resulting in plenty of (interesting) papers.  (1/6) gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...

9/ Ultrax (2011-14) and Ultrax2020 (2017-21) - Key people in these EPSRC projects were Korin Richmond, and Joanne Cleland (@drjoannecleland.bsky.social) at U Strathclyde. Joanne brilliantly combined work at CSTR with her expertise in speech and language therapy.  (1/2) gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...

8/ MMH (2009-2013) - This EPSRC project ("MultiMemoHome: MultiModal reminders within the home”) was joint with the University of Glasgow (Stephen Brewster and Marilyn Lennon). The CSTR part was primarily developed by Maria Wolters (@mariawolters.bsky.social). (1/2) sabgla.github.io/projects/com...

7/ SSPNeT (2009-2014) - This project was an EU Network of Excellence concerned with signals arising from social interactions. (1/2) www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~vincia/pape...

6/ SCALE (2009-2012) - Another EU Marie Curie Programme, led by Dietrich Klakow at Saarland Univ with Simon King leading at CSTR. Cassia Valentini-Botinhao and Liang Lu worked on it at CSTR. Also our first project with Arnab Ghoshal. (1/3) www.isca-archive.org/sapa_2012/sa...

5/ NIPUI (2008-2010) - This EU project, "Natural Interaction with projected user interfaces”, was basically done by Jochen Ehnes, and was linked to AMIDA.  It developed a visual representation of virtual characters in an environment. cordis.europa.eu/project/id/2... era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/...

4/ Data-driven articulatory modelling: foundations for a new generation of speech synthesis (2006-2010) - This was an EPSRC project primarily developed and worked on by Korin Richmond. (1/2) gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...

3/ EdSST (2006-2010) - Funded by the EU Marie Curie Programme, Edinburgh Speech Science & Technology involved 10 PhD students at CSTR and Queen Margaret University College SSRC. (1/2) cordis.europa.eu/project/id/2...

2/ MATCH (2005-2012) - This Scottish funded research project focused on technologies for care at home, involving the collaboration of four Scottish universities. (1/2) www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/researc...

1/ AMI and AMIDA (2004-2009) - We were joint coordinator of these EU projects (with IDIAP www.idiap.ch/en), involving several Edinburgh people including Jean Carletta, Mike Lincoln, and Caroline Hastings, as well as Herve Bourlard and colleagues at IDIAP. (1/8) www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/downloads/pu...