March 24, 2006
Tapping Musical Memory
Ever have a song stuck in your head, but you can't quite name the tune? A new tool developed by three students at Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia, may be able to help.
The Song Tapper, at http://www.songtapper.com, allows users to tap a beat on the space bar and get a list of possible titles in response. The site evolved from a project last year for an artificial-intelligence class and now gets as many as 10,000 hits a day.
"We wanted to do something that involved
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