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Dr. Bill Manaris is a member of the Computer Science faculty at the College of Charleston.

His interests include human computer interaction and artificial intelligence. He currently explores applications of neural networks and genetic programming techniques in computer music and art with an emphasis on computer modeling of aesthetics. Earlier research includes natural language and speech processing with applications in assistive technology. He is also involved in CS education research on Bloom's Taxonomy and the integration of HCI into undergraduate CS curricula.

Courses

• Course materials for Fall 2008:
  • FYSM 117 - First-Year Seminar: Computers, Music and Art
  • CSCI 210 - Game Programming
  • CSIS 691 - Music Information Retrieval

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* Advising calendar (Fall 2008)

Professional

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• 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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