AI and Creativity

This article contains summaries of the eight symposia that were conducted: AI and Creativity, AI and NP-Hard Problems, Building Lexicons for Machine Translation, Case-Based Reasoning and Information Retrieval, Foundations of Automatic Planning, Innovative Applications of Massive Parallelism, Reasoning about Mental States, and Training Issues in Incremental Learning. Technical reports of the symposia AI and Creativity, Building Lexicons for Machine Translation, Case-Based Reasoning and Information Retrieval, Foundations of Automatic Planning, Innovative Applications of Massive Parallelism, Reasoning about Mental States, and Training Issues in Incremental Learning are available from AAAI. Instructions and an order form for purchasing electronic and hardcopy versions can be found elsewhere in this issue. The symposium AI and Creativity attracted participants from widely differing backgrounds, including philosophy, science, education, engineering, and even computer science. The major themes of the meeting were the nature of creativity, computational models of creativity, and computational support for creativity.