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jaargang 43, 17 mei 2001 English page

DJs Wanted for TU/e Radio Station TU/e now has its very own internet radio station: iMusic. The new station will be on the air for the first time this Sunday, broadcasting live music from the Virus festival over the TU/e network. IMusic's official start will be on June 1. The station will be online 24 hours a day, seven days a week and its official language will be English. TU/e's new radio station was dreamt up by third-year German Ph.D. student Christoph Bartneck, who is involved in projects at Philips Research and EESI (Eindhoven Embedded Systems Institute). "Eindhoven is not exactly the cultural capital of the Netherlands. I think there's definitely room for a radio station with all kinds of specialised, non-top 40 music. That could be anything from tango to hard rock. The main thing is to get diversity and interesting content. We don't want to compete with traditional radio stations," he explains. Bartneck and three interns from Fontys Information Technology have been working to set-up iMusic for the past half year, together with supervisor and program manager Johan Lukkien of EESI and Hendrik-Jelle Reitsma of IPO. Practical Bartneck is enthusiastic about the work done by interns Friso Geerlings, Pieter Heijms and Marijn van Oorschot. "If you want to get something done, get people from Fontys. They're more practical than the average TU/e student," he says. "We really enjoyed ourselves with iMusic. We learnt a lot from working with Java technology and designing a user interface," says Geerlings. According to the interns, iMusic will have approximate FM radio sound quality, anything more is difficult because of copyright restrictions. All software necessary will be free for listeners. Imusic's 'studio' consists of a corner at the EESI offices with a number of heavy-duty computers. Initially, about 1000 listeners will be able to login at the same time. This number may be extended if necessary. International "We'll be working with a playlist concept". Bartneck continues. "We have twenty DJs who will program their music beforehand in a playlist. Each DJ will be on the air about once a week. Eventually, some live programs should become possible, but for that we need a wireless network on campus. At the moment our first priority is finding more volunteers, both DJs and software engineers with knowledge of Java. The only thing we ask our DJs is that they be dedicated to a particular style of music. I'd like to have an international community of DJs and listeners. We're already quite international, with DJs from Germany and the Netherlands. I hope to recruit DJs in Japan while I'm there this summer on a research trip." Bartneck plans to continue with his programming for iMusic from his laptop while in Japan. "The interesting thing about internet radio is that planning and scheduling can be done from anywhere. It's also very cheap compared to traditional radio." "We're starting small, but we want to concentrate on building something that works. We hope to grow from there. Eventually, multi-casting should be possible. Our only limiting factor is the capacity of the computers running the radio station." The project was funded by EESI which invested about 20,000 guilders in hardware and software. IPO also supported the development of iMusic by hiring the interns. Visit iMusic at www.imusic.tue.nl. Or send reactions and suggestions to the station's e-mail address pm@imusic.tue.nl./.

"TU/e Ideal for National Student Championships" The 'Grote Nederlandse Studenten Kampioenschappen (DAF-GNSK)' or the Dutch National Student Championships have started. In three sports days, some 1200 students will compete for the title of 'best performing student city of the Netherlands'. Dennis Heijstraten, chairman of the six person GNSK committee 2001 thinks Eindhoven has a good chance to win. "A team from Eindhoven is taking part in every part of the competition. This means that we can collect more points and have a greater chance of winning the title", he says. Heijstraten explains why the event is being held in Eindhoven. "The location is ideal for this kind of large sports event. Almost all the facilities we need are available at the Student Sports Centre, only one extra sports hall had to be hired. And of course our new pool was finished right on time; GNSK is the first big event to be held in the pool." Heijstraten and his sports colleagues of the GNSK committee have been working on the event since September of last year. They were assisted by a large group of volunteers. One of their final tasks was finding a sponsor. "Usually, a sponsor is found by sports union NSSS. This time we had to go out and get one ourselves. We're happy to have signed DAF Trucks. This company is very interested in increasing its exposure among students in connection with recruitment." The committee also took care of other important aspects of DAF-GNSK, such as setting up catering, transport and accommodation. Another 'essential' part of the event is of course entertainment. The committee has two parties planned, one on Thursday in the tent and the second on Friday in the Bunker. But of course the most important part of GNSK is sports. There are four obligatory categories: soccer, basketball, volleyball and handball. Participants can also choose to take part in waterpolo, rugby, badminton, judo and tennis competitions. Baseball was also planned, but this idea had to be abandoned because there were not enough players./.

Move CTT The Centre for Language and Technology (CTT). The CTT, which offers foreign language courses such as Dutch as a second language, communicative skills, language consultancy, and translation and editing services, has moved to 'De Hal'. We are now located close to the Central Library on the first floor (rooms 1.30 to 1.39). The secretary's office is room 1.39, ext. 2912, e-mail: ctt@tm.tue.nl. For the time being the Language Laboratory (for the self study of a broad range of foreign languages) will remain in the library of the Department of Technology Management in the Pavilion Building. Office hours are Tuesdays from 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. and Thursdays from 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m., ext. 4217. Opening Pool Various demonstrations of swimming, water polo, aquarobics and a spectacular canoe polo game were held this week to show the possibilities of the new swimming pool at the Student Sports Centre. The demos preceded the official opening of the pool by a number of people. A group of swimmers swam a ribbon to Olympic TU/e swimmers Joost de Hoogh and Joris Keizer, who cut it with an enormous pair of scissors. Chief of the Dutch Olympic team at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Jan Loorbach, was one of the speakers. He said that Eindhoven and the province of Brabant are taking the lead in many sports. "Brabant has a lot to prove at the coming games in Athens after the excellent results in Sydney." Loorbach joked that a number of locations in Athens are a bit worn out: "The athletics track is 2300 years old and the water for the sailing has been around even longer. They might even opt for another location, I think Eindhoven would be a good alternative." The English Page is written by Paula van der Riet. She can be reached at engcur@stud.tue.nl.