add Richard Mann prof talk

events.xml

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 <eventdefs>
 
 <!-- Winter 2018 -->
+<eventitem date="2018-03-22" time="6:00pm" room="MC 4059"
+  title="Prof Talk with Richard Mann">
+  <short>
+    <p>Professor Richard Mann will be giving a talk on black-box testing
+    of audio gear. Come out to see fancy audio gear, learn more about his
+    Advanced Topics course in Computational Sound, and eat free food! Click
+    through for his abstract.</p>
+  </short>
+  <abstract>
+    <p>
+    Black box testing usually refers to computer testing, either software
+    or hardware.
+    </p>
+
+    <p>
+    In this talk I apply similar ideas to testing analog and digital audio
+    gear. For example, given an audio device, such as a guitar effects pedal,
+    can we stimulate the system with test signals and determine what processing
+    is done inside?
+    </p>
+
+    <p>
+    I will present our open source testing software to test the frequency
+    response, time delay and distortion in audio systems. We will show several
+    real world testing situations, including microphones, loud speakers,
+    digital keyboards, digital audio mixing boards, and guitar effects pedals.
+    </p>
+
+    <p>
+    Students are encouraged to bring their own musical instruments and/or
+    sound processors for testing.
+    </p>
+
+    <p>
+    Finally, I will present information about my current audio course,
+    CS489/689 -- Advanced Topics in Computer Science -- Computational
+    Sound. This is a project based course, normally offered in the Winter term.
+    </p>
+  </abstract>
+</eventitem>
 
 <eventitem date="2018-03-13" time="6:00pm" room="MC Comfy"
   title="Discussion with maddog">