Michael Scott Cuthbert is a musicologist who has worked extensively on fourteenth-century music, computer-aided music analysis, and music of the past forty years. He has written on fragments and palimpsests of the late Middle Ages and has also published on topics as different as set analysis of Sub-Saharan African Rhythm and the music of John Zorn. He runs a software research lab creating new tools for computer-aided music analysis and generative music composition. Cuthbert is currently writing a book on music in Italy during the age of the Black Death and Great Papal Schism.Cuthbert is Associate Professor of Music and Homer A. Burnell Career Development Professor at MIT. He received his A.B. summa cum laude, A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. Cuthbert spent 2004-05 at the American Academy as a Rome Prize winner in Medieval Studies and is currently a Fellow in Florence at Harvard's Villa I Tatti Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Prior to joining the MIT faculty, Cuthbert was professor of music at Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges.