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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 and speech user interfaces with applications in assistive technology. He is also interested in CS education research incorporating HCI and Bloom's Taxonomy 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)

Activities

Publications

Other

  • 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".)
  • 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

Computer Science Department
College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424, USA
tel: +(843) 953-8159
email: manarisb@cofc.edu
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