A Top 100 Product

“Audacity,” an open source audio editor, originally designed and implemented by Carnegie Mellon Associate Research Professor Roger Dannenberg and former computer science doctoral student Dominic Mazzoni — now at Google — has earned a spot on PC World’s list of 100 best products of 2008.

“We introduced a new data structure to audio editing that’s often far faster than commercial editors,” said Dannenberg. “Audacity is popular mainly because it’s simple, free and reliable. It’s probably used by over one million people. It remains an open source project with quite a few active developers.”

You can download Audacity here.

Anne Watzman