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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 in computational models of aesthetics. Earlier research includes natural language and speech processing 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 Fall 2009:
  • FYSM 117 - Computers and Music
  • CSCI 210 - Game Programming
  • CSIS 691 / CSCI 399 / CSCI 299 - Music Information Retrieval

• Office hours

* Advising calendar (Fall 2009)

Activities

• Armonique - an NSF-funded project to develop a novel music search engine based on 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.

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.

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

Βασίλης Μάναρης, Βασίλειος Μάναρης