Associate Research Professor
School of Computer Science and School of Art
Carnegie Mellon University

Office: 3214 Wean Hall, 412-268-3827
Music Lab: 3213 Wean Hall, 412-268-2613
Fax: 412-268-5576
Email: rbd+@cs.cmu.edu
Executive Assistant: Amelia Williams

For More Information

• Bibliography
• Compositions and performances
• Nyquist Info, Nyquist Manual
• Music software
• PortMusic
• CMU School of Computer Science
• ICMA Home
• Electronic Music Foundation
• Pittsburgh Jazz Network
• Bands, etc.:
  • Capgun Quartet
  • Roger Humphries Big Band
  • Swingtet 8
  • Tuesday Night Big Band
  • East Winds Symphonic Band
• Links to old information: courses, projects, etc.
• Notes, Docs, etc.
• Quotes from Richard

News

• June 9, 2008 Audacity in PC World 100 Best Products of 2008
• Old "news"...

Courses Taught

• Operating System Design and Implementation
• Introduction to Computer Music (Last taught spring 2007, next offering: spring 2009)
• Computer Music Systems and Information Processing (Last taught fall 2006, next offering: spring 2010)

Research Interests

• Computer Music: sound synthesis, interactive performance systems, music representation, music understanding.
• Computer-Based Instruction: using Instructional Design concepts and Multimedia for practical, large curriculum, effective instruction systems.
• Real-Time and Multimedia Systems: especially the problems of constructing reliable, modular, complex interactive systems.
• Research description from the CMU CSD Faculty Research Guide

Projects

• Computer Music
• Just-In-Time Lectures