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To: Elsewhere who wrote (16567)	9/6/2006 2:19:45 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

[Brough Turner of NMS Communications Interview with Jeff Pulver] Thanks again, JJ. I've given this topic - musical melody recognition software - some additional thought. Many of the underlying technologies needed to achieve melody recognition have been pioneered throughout the years in pursuit of other ends, starting with digital signal processor (DSP) work used for voice (and later video and other image) compression algorithms, and later other forms of pattern recognition. What is a melody if not a pattern of sounds that can be mapped to a set of points on a graph, like fingers, retinas, seismic events and stock activity? The trick I guess would be decoupling the basic melody from extraneous energy represented as accompaniment, enhancements and unwanted harmonic byproducts. I recalled an interview that was done by Jeff Pulver with Brough Turner of NMS Communications not too long ago. Brough, a sometimes fellow contributor of mine on the Cook Report symposium discussion group, is a co-founder of Natural MicroSystems, now NMS Communications. His views, I found, tend to be with a few exceptions consistent with many of my own, as I've expressed them here over the years. The interview delves into not only the roots of NMS as a startup company some 24 years ago, but also into the trends of technologies such as VoIP, dark fiber & community condominium builds, WiMAX (as deployed in developing countries by NMS's own flavor of access point gateway), IMS and fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), and more. Hopefully some folks here will find the interview as interesting as I did: Brough Turner of NMS Communications VON Magazine Interview By Jeff Pulver \| January, 2006 vonmag-digital.com Enjoy, FAC

To: Elsewhere who wrote (16567)	9/9/2006 9:57:49 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Don’t Keep All Your Data in One Stash September 7, 2006 By DAMON DARLIN What happens to those beloved family photos or your extensive music collection if something should happen to your PC and your backup? Seagate is trying to solve the off-premises backup problem. If you put stock in a recent survey from Symantec, the company behind the Norton line of computer protection software, 57 percent of computer users who store personal data on their PC’s conscientiously back it up. Those people can feel very good about themselves, because the same survey found that a quarter of computer users have lost computer data like documents, photos and music files, most commonly when the computer crashes. For all those people who are feeling pretty good about themselves, here is something else to worry about: what happens to those beloved family photos or your extensive music collection if something should happen to your PC and your backup? A fire, flood or earthquake could destroy the backup sitting inches from the PC. Continued at: nytimes.com ------