OSU is a world leader in software development for music research. At the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory, we have assembled symbolic databases for music from 60 cultures, and distribute software tools that are the preferred development kit for music researchers and music programmers worldwide.
This talk will illustrate a number of applications including: (1) dynamic programming methods for measuring musical similarity, (2) methods pertaining to music summarization, (3) spatial information processing (generating and analyzing musical maps), (4) music analysis, and (5) themefinder.com (a "name-that-tune" search engine).
A number of design lessons arise from the musical experience that have applicability for software design in general.