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Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University

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The School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University seeks an exceptional artist-teacher in studio engineering and recording to join the popular music faculty. This is a full-time appointment, appointment type and rank based on experience, beginning Fall 2021.

About ASU

Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 80,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nations fifth largest city. ASU champions intellectual and cultural diversity, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

About the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

ASUs Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts is the largest comprehensive design and arts school in the country, built on a combination of disciplines unlike any other program nationally and located within a dynamic research university focused on transformative change. The Herberger Institute comprises the schools of Art; Arts, Media and Engineering; Music, Dance and Theatre; The Design School; The Sidney Poitier New American Film School, and the ASU Art Museum. The Herberger Institute is committed to redefining the 21st-century design and arts school through developing and scaling ideas to strengthen the role of designers and artists across all areas of society and culture and to increase the capacity of artists to make a difference in their communities. For more information on the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, visit herbergerinstitute.asu.edu.

About the School of Music, Dance and Theatre

The School of Music, Dance and Theatre is widely recognized for preparing artists, scholars, visionaries and entrepreneurs to become creative leaders who transform society through their creative work. Our internationally recognized faculty artists, scholars and guest artists are motivating and compassionate mentors who work with students to cultivate excellence and personal growth. Our nationally recognized programs feature a comprehensive range of degrees plus minors and certificates and more than 600 concerts, events, performances, productions and recitals each year. Located in the culturally rich Southwest in one of the most vibrant, expanding urban centers, our programs afford students access to a diverse environment and engagement in Phoenixs flourishing arts community. Above all, we value the creativity, personal experience and voice each student brings to the school. For more information on the School of Music, Dance and Theatre, visit musicdancetheatre.asu.edu.

The popular music concentration within the BA program in music in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University welcomes and accommodates 21st-century musicians interested in popular music, music industry studies and entrepreneurship. This includes but is not limited to singers and songwriters, laptop performers, producers, composers, instrumentalists, vocalists and musicians whose practices and playing styles are representative of varied popular music idioms. Students in this concentration develop general musicianship and are invited to specialize in multiple areas of study which include songwriting, production, composition, performance, engineering, sound design, events, music business, education, and advocacy work. All students gain a working knowledge of the music industry and music business, and the entrepreneurial skills necessary to gain meaningful employment upon graduation. Students participate in individual applied study in chosen specializations, as well as a variety of group performances and production opportunities. Internship courses provide opportunities for students to apply their learning in a real-life context and begin building relationships. A capstone senior year allows students to work more intimately with faculty on perfecting their craft as well as prepare for the shift from ASU to the industry. We seek an innovative artist-teacher who will act as chief engineer and educator for our new state of the art studio facilities in downtown Phoenix.

The successful candidate will develop the sound engineering and recording curriculum including, but not limited to, audio engineering and production, mixing and critical listening, and courses in the candidates area of expertise. Additionally, the candidate will be expected to run key recording sessions in the facility, and develop and prepare student assistant engineers.The candidate will mentor students through the specialization and capstone processes. Further responsibilities will include recruiting high-quality students regionally, nationally and internationally, and mentoring and assisting students in developing their professional goals.The candidate is expected to possess a broad knowledge of the sound engineering and recording industry as well as significant first-hand experience working within it, and to continue to pursue a professional career and actively participate in creative activity and/or research at the school.The candidate is also expected to demonstrate excellence in teaching with the ability to instruct at the undergraduate levels, both in-person and online, and to work effectively with faculty colleagues and administration in service to satisfy and advance the mission of the ASU School of Music, Dance and Theatre. Our new colleague will have the experience of managing and organizing people and projects and outstanding communication, technical and interpersonal skills to support and forward a thriving program.

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All applications must be submitted electronically via http://apply.interfolio.com/84146

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The application deadline is April 6, 2021. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they were received until the position is filled.

ASU conducts pre-employment screening for all positions which includes a criminal background check, verification of work history, academic credentials, licenses and certifications.

Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.

(See https://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd401.html and https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/.)

In compliance with federal law, ASU prepares an annual report on campus security and fire safety programs and resources. ASUs Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is available online at https://www.asu.edu/police/PDFs/ASU-Clery-Report.pdf. You may request a hard copy of the report by contacting the ASU Police Department at 480-965-3456.

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Studio Engineering and Recording School of Music, Dance and Theatre - Digital Music News

Machine learning seems to be picking up steam as one of the buzzwords to look out for this decade.

Among the U.S. and Japan-based I.T. professionals surveyed in 2017, three-fourths said they were already using machine learning for cybersecurity. Most were also confident that the cyberattacks on their businesses within the past year used machine learning. Despite its increasing use, machine learning remains an ambiguous concept among more than half of the respondents.

Regardless, data has become the new black gold in recent years, according to some experts. The entrepreneur in this data-driven economy relies on information derived from collected data to make more informed decisions. It wouldnt be surprising for a business to invest heavily in software and other solutions built on sophisticated neural networks.

Creating such networks is no easy task. Whether feed-forward or recurrent, a neural network must be capable of learning as it feeds on more data. It also has to learn new things in a period measured in days, if not seconds. By contrast, the human brain takes years for something to become second nature to a person.

Central to this effort is the machine learning engineer. It has grown to become the most in-demand profession in the U.S., with related job opportunities spiking by 344% in 2019. Heres an in-depth look into the role of a machine learning engineer and the reasons for the jobs increase in demand.

To say that a machine learning engineers job is similar to a computer programmer is a dichotomy. While performing programming to an extent, a machine learning engineers task is to develop the machine to perform tasks without being explicitly told.

Computer programming takes rules and data, and then turning them into solutions. Meanwhile, machine learning takes solutions and data, and then turning them into rules. Furthermore, computer programming can develop a general-use calculator, while machine learning can develop one for a specific niche.

Machine learning engineers work closely with data scientists and software engineers. They create control models using data that are derived from the models defined by data scientists, allowing the machine to understand commands. From there, the software engineer designs the user interface from which the machine will operate.

The final product is software, like cnvrg MLOps, combining best practices from DevOps, software development and I.T. operations, and machine learning engineering. Organizations tend to spend more on infrastructure development when a machine learning-ready software can provide a precise estimate on how much they need.

Machine learning engineers have a diverse skill setwith some skills encompassing those found in data scientists and software engineers. Its usual for one to graduate from college and begin working with some skills missing since theyll learn these skills as they move up the career ladder anyway.

The necessary skills for machine learning engineering fall under any of the four categories.

As mentioned earlier, the end product of machine learning engineering is software. Still, its applications are far and widebeyond predicting business trends and auto-filling search terms.

For instance, Stanford Universitys Autonomous Helicopter Program demonstrates the feasibility of teaching an aircraft flight. Researchers installed a system that uses reinforcement learning on a Yamaha R-50 helicopter. It managed to perform stunts a human-crewed helicopter would have difficulty doing, if not impossible to do, continually correcting its course with each pass.

Similar autonomous technology found its way in the drivers seat of Googles self-driving vehicle. Described as on the bleeding edge of artificial intelligence research, the car learns from human behavior on the road to drive. While the technology wont replace human drivers anytime soon, it shows the possibilities machine learning engineering is turning into reality.

Its safe to say that machine learning engineers fill capability gaps among software engineers and data scientists. When these disciplines work together, they create technologies previously thought impractical or impossible. No doubt that theyre paving the way to the future.

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What Is the Role of a Machine Learning Engineer? - TechSpective

The months-long hacking campaign that affected US government agencies and cybersecurity vendors was "the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen," Microsoft president Brad Smith has said, and involved a vast number of developers.

The attack, disclosed by security firm FireEye and Microsoft in December, may have impacted as many as 18,000 organizations as a result of the Sunburst (or Solorigate) malware planted inside SolarWinds's Orion network management software.

"I think from a software engineering perspective, it's probably fair to say that this is the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen," Smith told CBSNews' 60 Minutes.

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Microsoft, which was also breached by the bad Orion update, assigned 500 engineers to investigate the attack said Smith, but the (most likely Russia-backed) team behind the attack had more than double the engineering resources.

"When we analyzed everything that we saw at Microsoft, we asked ourselves how many engineers have probably worked on these attacks. And the answer we came to was, well, certainly more than 1,000," said Smith.

Among US agencies confirmed to have been affected by the attacks include the US Treasury Department, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the US Department of State, and the US Department of Energy (DOE)

Smith has previously raised an alarm over the attack because government-backed cyber attackers focusing on the technology supply chain pose a risk for the broader economy.

"While governments have spied on each other for centuries, the recent attackers used a technique that has put at risk the technology supply chain for the broader economy," Smith said after disclosing the attacks.

He said this was an attack "on the trust and reliability of the world's critical infrastructure in order to advance one nation's intelligence agency."

Smith highlighted to 60 Minutes that the attackers re-wrote just 4,032 lines of code within Orion, which consists of millions of lines of code.

Kevin Mandia, CEO of FireEye, also discussed how the attackers set off an alarm but only after the attackers had successfully enrolled a second smartphone connected to a FireEye employee's account for its two-factor authentication system. Employees need that two-factor code to remotely sign into the company's VPN.

"Just like everybody working from home, we have two-factor authentication," said Mandia.

"A code pops up on our phone. We have to type in that code. And then we can log in. A FireEye employee was logging in, but the difference was our security staff looked at the login and we noticed that individual had two phones registered to their name. So our security employee called that person up and we asked, "Hey, did you actually register a second device on our network?" And our employee said, "No. It wasn't, it wasn't me."

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Charles Carmakal, senior vice president and chief technology officer at FireEye's Mandiant incident response team, previously told Yahoo News that FireEye's security system alerted the employee and the company's security team to the unknown device that supposedly belonged to the employee.

The attackers had gained access to the employee's username and password via the SolarWinds update. Those credentials allowed the attacker to enroll the device in its two-factor authentication system.

The Orion updates weren't the only way that companies were infiltrated during the campaign, which also involved the hackers gaining access to cloud applications. As many 30% of the organisations breached hadno direct link to Solar Winds, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

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Microsoft: SolarWinds attack took more than 1,000 engineers to create - ZDNet