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

He currently explores music information retrieval with an emphasis in computational models of aesthetics. Earlier research includes natural language and speech processing with applications in assistive technology. He is also involved in CS education research incorporating HCI and Bloom's Taxonomy in undergraduate curricula.

Courses

• Course materials for Spring 2009:
  • CSCI 180 - Computers, Music and Art
  • CSCI 470 - Artificial Intelligence
  • CSIS 691 / CSCI 399 - Music Information Retrieval

• Office hours

* Advising calendar (Spring 2009)

Professional

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Other

• 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.")
• 2000-year-old computer is working again. ("The Antikythera's user interface is deceptively simple, operated by a simple knob on the side. This conceals the intricacy within, amounting to a complex mathematical model, tracking the movements of planetary bodies and incorporating a series of submechanisms to account for the eccentricities of their rotation".)
• Analyzing music the digital way - computers have exquisite ears.
• Researchers play song recorded before Edison.
• MIT professor Walter Lewin swings from pendulums and faces down wrecking balls.
• Armonique - a music search engine based on Zipf's law.

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