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Computers - Artificial Intelligence - Creativity
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Melanie Mitchell - Currently at the Santa Fe Institute. Melanie Mitchell developed Copycat as part of her dissertation work with Douglas Hofstadter on cognitive modeling of high-level perception and analogy-making.

Margaret Boden - Author of "The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms", Boden's interests are in the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques for understanding human creativity.

Ashok Goel - Ashok Goel is an Associate Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. Research in various aspects of design includes investigation of the creative exploration involved in solving problems.

William H. Calvin - Theoretical neurophysiologist and author of "The Cerebral Code", and "How Brains Think".

il sogno di Eliza - A project about creative interaction between artificial and human intelligence producing a story, a real fiction book. The author uses several pieces of software to create the plot, the dialogues, to find new path or check the older one. Written in italian the result is a fiction of 160 pages.

Stephen L. Thaler - Creator of the neural-network based Creativity Machine. Thaler has proposed it as a model of consciousness in which a neural network manifests what he calls a stream of consciousness while a second network filters the outputs from the first network. Thaler claims that these immense neural network cascades are capable of human level invention, discovery, and artistic creativity. Holds patents in the areas of neural networks, optimization, and the construction of sentient machines.

The Metaphor page - Tony Veale's introductions to analogy and metaphor. Includes the SAPPER analogy system.

Raul Valdes-Perez - Papers on scientific discovery and applications to chemistry.

Chris Thornton - Collection of papers relevant to artificial creativity and intelligence.

SWALE Project Home Page: Case-Based Creativity - This site, maintained by David Leake at Indiana University, describes the SWALE project's case-based reasoning approach to generating creative explanations. A simplified version of the SWALE code is available.

Artificial Creativity in Art - An algorithmic approach to creativity in art.

Artificial Intelligence and Creativity - Papers from the 1993 Symposium

Artificial Creativity in Linguistics - Using genetic algorithms to create English words.

Creative Systems Group of Coimbra - People working in AI and Creativity

SAPPER - Tony Veale's structure-mapping system.

Imagination Engines, Incorporated - Imagination Engines builds The Creativity Machine. Good site for related papers and articles.

Machine Creativity - Discussion site for machine-based creativity.

Raul Valdes-Perez - CMU.

CMU center for Automated Learning and Discovery

Recent Work in Computational Scientific Discovery - Article by Lindley Darden.

Scientific Discovery Processes in Humans and Computers - theory and research in psychology and AI - Morton Wagman's 2000 book. Includes sections on algorithms and systems.

Simon Colton

Pat Langley

Wired 3.11: By Analogy - Kevin Kelly's interview with Douglas Hofstadter.

IU Computer Science: Douglas R Hofstadter - Home page, which includes contact details, black and white photograph, and departmental report narrative.

Perspective of Mind: Douglas Hofstadter - Essay discussing Hofstadter's views on intelligence and the mind.

Non-Fiction Reviews: Douglas R. Hofstadter - Reviews of books, including Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. and Le Ton beau de Marot.

NYTimes.com: Exploring the Labyrinth of the Mind - Detailed discussion of Hofstadter's life and works.

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Review of the both the original version and the 20th Anniversary Edition.

Gödel and Gödel's Theorem - Math - Overview of Hofstadter's explanation of Gödel's Theorem.

alt.fan.hofstadter: "GEB" FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions from the Hofstadter newsgroup.

Peter Suber, Hunter-Hofstadter Map - Shows where in Gödel, Escher, Bach to find topics covered in Geoffrey Hunter's Metalogic, and vice versa.

GEB Questions - A student's notes from a Gödel, Escher, Bach course.

Review of Chapters XVI and XVII - Detailed review of two chapters of Gödel, Escher, Bach, with references.

Books in Review: Le Ton Beau de Marot - Alan Jacobs' review of the book.

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language - Tal Cohen's review.

NYTimes.com: My Little Chickadee - Review of Le Ton Beau de Marot.

Workshop on Approaches to Creativity in AI and Cognitive Science - A workshop associated to the ICCBR 2001 conference, Vancouver, Canada (Deadline: 11 May, 2001)

International Congress on Discovery and Creativity - Ghent, May 1998.

AISB-00 Symposium on Creative and Cultural Aspects and Applications of AI and Cognitive Science - Aimed to bring together researchers interested in all aspects of creativity and cultural enterprise.

International Conference on Computational Models of Creative Design, 1998 - Triennial round-table conference series held on Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of current research developments and implementations of computational models of creative design.

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