Report on the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity

'17) was hosted at the Georgia Institute This was the third time the conference had been hosted in North America (Mexico City, ICCC'11; Park City, ICCC'15), and the Georgia Institute of Technology and local hosts provided extremely comfortable accommodation for everyone, furthering the traditional friendly and welcoming atmosphere of the conference. Thirty-four full papers were presented in a single track over three and a half days, as oral presentations, or posters and short talks, depending on the nature of the contribution. The papers were grouped by theme. A foundations session opened the conference with talks on application domains in CC, building a CC system, and teaching CC. A language session followed, looking at linguistic creativity in narrative and poetry.