新的数字合成语言 chuck (声音合成)

这个语言由普林斯顿大学开发,公布时间大概只有一年半。最近有幸认识开发人员之一,普林斯顿大学的博士生王戈(GE WANG),一个非常乐天派的小子。具体了解和见到了实际的软件。chuck软件和SC类似的地方是都为文本编辑界面,不同之处是以时间轴为概念。他也说一个新的程式语言如果没有新的概念的话就没有必要去学习,所以他们希望可以提供一个新的考虑的角度。

目前来说我个人觉得这个语言还不是很完善,从安装开始就是在mac的终端完成,而且编辑界面虽然可以在任何文本编辑软件下完成,但是觉得这样反复的转换容易搞晕自己,chuck比较有意思的地 方反而是它的监控界面,有三个视频化的监测界面,甚至搭建了一个可以多机的视频界面,里面的小玩偶的头顶你可以输入你想说的话。这个估计也是方便在网络中 多人进行交流的。

王戈告诉我chuck会尽快在内部建立一个编辑系统,而且以后视频化的界面可以在chuck内部进行个人化的设计。希望这个软件会是一个有趣的工具。有兴趣的朋友可以去chuck的官方网站下载,这个软件是开源并免费的.

http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/

Mourning over Professor Wen Chu-an’s Pass Away

以下来自sub jam收到的消息
刚才收到标题是“Mourning over Professor Wen Chu-an’s Pass Away”的邮件:

Dear friends,
I’m hesitate to inform all of you, friends of Prof. Wen Chu-an of Sichuan University , that he had gone out of this world on September 23, 2005, for the reason of myocardial infarction. What tragic news! I am stunned, as all your friends are! His funeral has staged on September 25, 2005.
He was a loyal and generous friend. He was an inspired professor who had the achievement on BG research. He was never afraid of saying what he believed. And having said it-he was a man of his word. Wen was an extraordinary man.
He will be missed by all of his friends. He will not be forgotten.
In deepest sorrow and affection.
Faithfully yours,
Fan Mingliang