Regular readers of my Research Picks may well have noticed an occasional musical or artistic reference in the headlines I write here’s a selection from some of the more recent items:
- Wheels within wheels – Rush lyric from the song Natural Science
- Click the habit – “Kicked the habit” Sledgehammer lyric by Peter Gabriel
- Ergonomic for the people – “Automatic for the People” REM album
- Lessons in empathy – Lessons in Love, Level 42 song title
- Chain, chain, chain – Chain of Fools lyric from Aretha Franklin song
- Closer to the art – Closer to the Heart, Rush song
- Noise to signal – Signal to noise, Peter Gabriel song
- A loom with a view and A view of a room with VR and AI – EM Forster’s A Room with a View
- Truly moving pictures – Rush album Moving Pictures
- Grid expectations – Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations
- The left and right of recycled price tags – Rush lyric from song Distant Early Warning “the lefts and rights of passage” and Jessie J song Price Tag
- Don’t you know that you’re toxic? – Britney Spears lyric from song Toxic
- Mowing the green, green grass of social media – Tom Jones’ The Green, Green Grass of Home and George Ezra’s Green, Green Grass
- Minting wafer thin defect detection – The wafer-thin mint offered to Mr Creosote in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
- Winter is coming…check the powerlines – “Winter is coming” catchphrase of Game of Thrones
- AI learns elephant talk – King Crimson song Elephant Talk
- A leap towards an emotion detector and Criminal emotion detector – Rush song Emotion Detector
- Let’s get physical, virtually – Lyric “let’s get physical” from Olivia Newton-John song Physical
- Better watch out for facial recognition that is more than skin deep – “Better watch out for the skin deep” lyric from The Stranglers’ song Skin Deep
- New model armed with subtlety gets sentimental – Band New Model Army and allusion to Cromwell historically
- Talkin’ about your generation! – “Talking ’bout my generation” lyric from My Generation by The Who
- Oil agility is a gas! – Rolling Stones’ song Jumpin’ Jack Flash “it’s a gas, gas, gas”
- The social gold rush – tales from the crypto – Neil Young album “After the Gold Rush” and “Tales from the Crypt” horror anthology
- Five whys failed M.O. – “Five Guys Named Moe” musical
- Supply chains under pressure – Queen/Bowie song Under Pressure, Rush album Grace Under Pressure
- Is silence golden? – Silence is Golden, song recorded by The Four Seasons and The Tremeloes
- From the Norfolk Broads to Ibiza – “From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads”, David Bowie lyric from the song Life on Mars
- Candidate crush – Candy Crush online game
- Art for AI’s sake – Art for Art’s Sake 10cc song
- Deduplication, that’s the name of the game – Elvis Presley song “Multiplication, that’s the Name of the Game”
- The digital jean genie is out of the bottle – Bowie song The Gene Genie
- Red, red wine data for me – Neil Diamond song Red, Red Wine
- Does everybody hurt? AI detects depression online – Everybody Hurts, REM song
- Watcher of the Spies – Watcher of the Skies, Genesis song
- Communication breakdown when the heat is on – Led Zeppelin song Communication Breakdown and Glenn Frey’s song The Heat is On