Computational Creativity / Computational Synthesis and Creative Systems (PDF)

Tony Veale received his Ph.D. in Computer Science on the subject of Creative Language Processing from Trinity College Dublin. Since then he has divided his career between academia and industry. He developed text-understanding and machine translation systems for Hitachi; he patented Web-based question-answering technology for Intelliseek and Coreintellect, where he held the position of Chief Scientist; during his tenure on the CYC project in Cycorp he developed a model of analogical reasoning and contributed to DARPA's High-Performance-Knowledge-Bases (HPKB) and Rapid-Knowledge-Formation (RKF) projects. He has coauthored over 120 research papers. He wrote the monograph Exploding the Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity published by Bloomsbury Academic; he coedited the multidisciplinary volume Creativity and the Agile Mind published by Mouton De Gruyter; he coauthored the book Twitterbots: Making Machines That Make Meaning published by MIT Press;and he coauthored the book The Metaphor: A Computational Perspective published by Morgan Claypool. He has been an invited lecturer and has conducted tutorials and code camps related to creativity, both linguistic and computational, at international summer and autumn schools and conferences. He publishes widely in the area of Computational Creativity, further details are available at http://afflatus.ucd.ie
F. Amílcar Cardoso received his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences and his habilitation in Informatics Engineering, both from the University of Coimbra, where he is a full professor and teaches Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Modeling, Computational Creativity, Sound Design, and Computer Programming for Design. He did pioneering work on Computational Creativity in the 1990s as leader of the team that authored several creative systems (e.g., SICOM, NEvAr, MuzaCazUza), and he has since assumed an active role in the area, as cofounder of the series of Creative Systems Workshops in 2001-2006, of