6:30 for 7:00pm Wednesday 1 April 2009

London Knowledge Lab - Institute of Education
23 - 29 Emerald St
London
WC1N 3QS
England

Nearest tubes: Holborn, Russell Square or Chancery Lane.

"In this talk I will present my research developing computational models of curiosity and their application to the modelling of individual and social creativity. Curiosity is a behavioural response to a perceived lack of information. Computational models of curiosity can be constructed using a wide range of machine learning technologies. The development of agent-based models of curiosity opens up new possibilities for modelling creative behaviour, including the autonomous exploration of conceptual spaces. The autonomy of motivated creative agents supports the modelling of emergent dynamics of social creativity. Motivated creative agents also present new opportunities for supporting human creativity."

Rob Saunders is Lecturer in Design Computing at The Design Lab in The University of Sydney, Australia. His research has focussed on the development of computational models of creativity. In particular, he has developed computational models to explore the role of curiosity, interest and boredom in the creative process.

He has used his models of curiosity to develop computational models of social creativity to explore the emergent dynamics of social creativity. His most recent research includes extending models of social creativity to include aspects of language and culture to explore the consequences of these phenomena on the evolution of creativity.

The Computer Arts Society is pleased to invite you to our March meeting. This event is open to the public and is free. You are invited to attend a little earlier - at 6:30 - for a glass of wine to celebrate the informal launch of the new book "White Heat Cold Logic - British Computer Art 1960-1980" from MIT Press. Three of the books four editors and several contributors will be present.