Course Schedule and Readings

BSS stands for Computational Creativity Research: Towards Creative Machines. Editors: Tarek Besold, Marco Schorlemmer & Alan Smaill, Atlantis Press, 2015.

VC stands for Computational Creativity. Editors: Tony Veale, & Amilcar Cardoso, Springer ; forthcoming

Date Book Chapter
Jan. 9 Introductions -
Jan. 11 Guest Lectures Tesca Fitzgerald: Towards Robot Creativity
Bobbie Eicher: Jill Watson and Family
Jan. 16 Paper McDorduch, Aaron’s Code
Boden, Computer Models of Creativity
Jan. 23 Guest Lecture Sungeun An & Robert Bates:
Scientific Modeling using the Vera tool.
Readings: Joyner, Goel & Papin 2014;
Goel & Joyner 2015
Jan. 25 BSS Chapter 10; Veale
Chapter 12; Oliveira & Cardoso
Jan. 30 BSS Chapter 13; Perez
Chapter 14; Ellis et al.
Feb. 1 BSS Chapter 15; Cope
Chapter16; Pinel et
Feb. 6 Guest Lectures Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Feb. 8 Guest Lectures Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Feb. 13 BSS Chapter 6; Indurkhya
Chapter 17; Goel
Feb. 15 BSS Chapter 1; Colton et al
Feb. 20 BSS Chapter 4; Ventura
Feb. 22 VC Chapter 1 – Veale et al
Feb. 27 VC Chapter 2 – Wiggins
Mar. 1 VC Chapter 3 – Ventura
Mar. 6 VC Chapter 4 – Veale
Chapter 5 – Martins
Mar. 8 VC Chapter 6 – Lavrac
Chapter 7 – Goel
Mar. 13 VC Chapter 8 – Ritchie
Chapter 9 – Grace
Mar. 15 VC Chapter 10 – Jordanous
Chapter 11 – Gatti
Mar. 20 VC Spring Break
Mar. 22 VC Spring Break
Mar. 27 VC Chapter 12 – Perez
Chapter 13 - Gervas
Mar. 29 VC Chapter 14 – Saunders
Chapter 15 – McCormack
Apr. 3 Selected Papers TBD
Apr. 5 CC Model Lecture
Apr. 10 Team Presentation
Apr. 12 Team Presentation
Apr. 17 Team Presentation
Apr. 19 Team Presentation
Apr. 24 Review