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Dr. Bill Manaris is a professor of Computer Science at the College of Charleston. His interests include artificial intelligence, human computer interaction, and computing in music and art.

He explores music information retrieval focusing on computational aesthetics. Earlier research includes natural language processing and speech user interfaces. He is also interested in CS education research, such as incorporating HCI in CS curricula.

Courses

• Course materials for Spring 2010:
  • CSCI 180 - Computers, Music, and Art
  • CSCI 470 - Artificial Intelligence
  • CSIS 691 / CSCI 399 / CSCI 299 - Music Information Retrieval

• Office hours

* Advising calendar (Fall 2009)

Publications

• B. Manaris, "Dropping CS Enrollments: or The Emperor's New Clothes?", Inroads (the ACM SIGCSE Bulletin), pp. 6-10, Dec. 2007.
• B. Manaris, P. Roos, P. Machado, D. Krehbiel, L. Pellicoro, and J. Romero, "A Corpus-Based Hybrid Approach to Music Analysis and Composition," Proceedings of 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, BC, pp. 839-845, Jul. 2007.
• B. Manaris, J. Romero, P. Machado, D. Krehbiel, T. Hirzel, W. Pharr, and R.B. Davis, "Zipf's Law, Music Classification and Aesthetics," Computer Music Journal 29(1), MIT Press, pp. 55-69, Spring 2005.

Activities

• Armonique and Armonique Lite - an NSF-funded music discovery engine based on computational aesthetics.
• Associate Editor, The International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT).
• Program Committee, 8th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, April 7-9, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.

Other

• Antikythera Mechanism - 2100-year-old computer is working again. ("Its user interface is deceptively simple; it hides a complex mathematical model, which tracks the movements of planetary bodies.")
• Computer program self-discovers laws of physics. ("In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings.")
• Analyzing music the digital way - computers have exquisite ears.
• Researchers play song recorded before Edison.

Contact Info

Βασίλης Μάναρης, Βασίλειος Μάναρης