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<p><span id="ms-rterangepaste-start"></span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">Registration for WAC 2016 is now open.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">To register, please visit </span><a href="http://webaudio.gatech.edu/" target="_blank" id="LPlnk820254" style="font-size:13.3333px">http://webaudio.gatech.edu</a><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">The 2nd Web Audio Conference (WAC) will be held April 4-6, 2016 at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. WAC is an international conference dedicated to web audio technologies and applications. The conference addresses
research, development, design, and standards concerned with emerging audio-related web technologies such as Web Audio API, Web RTC, WebSockets and Javascript. WAC welcomes industry engineers, R&D scientists, academic researchers, artists, and students from
fields such as web development, music technology, computer music, and audio applications. The first Web Audio Conference was held in January 2015 at IRCAM and Mozilla in Paris, France. WAC 2016 is sponsored by the Georgia Tech College of Architecture and by
Dolby.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">The keynote speakers for WAC 2016 are Helen Thorington and Frank Melchior. The conference will feature over 75 papers, posters, talks, demos, artworks, and musical performances, a plenary session with the
W3C working group on the Web Audio API, a hack session, tutorials, and related activities.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">The conference takes place at Georgia Tech, a major research university located in midtown Atlanta, with convenient access from Hartsfield-Jackson Airport (the busiest passenger airport in the world). The
conference venue, Georgia Tech’s Academy of Medicine, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and houses the chandelier seen in the movie “Gone with the Wind.” The venue is a short walk to the Georgia Tech campus, dining, shopping, nightlife,
the conference hotel, and the city’s main subway line.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">Registration rates are as follows:</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">Early Bird Registration (by February 15th):</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">$250 regular registration</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">$100 student registration</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">Late Registration (after February 15th):</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">$400 regular registration</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">$200 student registration</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">For all accepted papers, posters, talks, demos, artworks, and performances, at least one author must register for and attend the conference.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">TRAVEL GRANT PROGRAM</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">The WAC 2016 organizing committee plans to award a small number of travel and registration grants. The grants will waive registration fees and cover a portion of travel expenses for recipients.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">To be eligible for consideration for a travel grant, you must:</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">- have a paper, poster, talk, demo, artwork, and/or performance accepted for presentation at WAC 2016</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">- belong to a population that is underrepresented in the WAC community</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">- not have attended WAC 2015</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">- not have financial support from your institution to attend WAC 2016</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">To apply for a travel grant, write a one-page letter of application that confirms your eligibility, describes how attendance at WAC 2016 will be of benefit to you and to any communities and/or organizations
you are involved in, and includes your contact information and origin city for travel.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px">Travel grant applications are due by *February 1st, 2016* and should be sent as a PDF attachment to webaudio@gatech.edu.</span><span id="ms-rterangepaste-end"></span><br>
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