Imperial College
Computational Creativity: Coming of Age
Colton, Simon (Imperial College) | Mantaras, Ramon Lopez de (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) | Stock, Oliviero (IRST)
Such creative software can be used for autonomous creative tasks, such as inventing mathematical theories, writing poems, painting pictures, and composing music. However, computational creativity studies also enable us to understand human creativity and to produce programs for creative people to use, where the software acts as a creative collaborator rather than a mere tool. Historically, it's been difficult for society to come to terms with machines that purport to be intelligent and even more difficult to admit that they might be creative. For instance, in 1934, some professors at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom built meccano models that were able to solve some mathematical equations. Groundbreaking for its time, this project was written up in a piece in Meccano Magazine. The article was titled "Are Thinking Machines Possible" and was very upbeat, but surprisingly ends by stating that "Truly creative thinking of course will always remain beyond the power of any machine." Surely, though, this attitude has changed in light of the amazing advances in hardware and software technology that followed those meccano models?
The Third International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Fong, Terry (NASA Ames Research Center) | Dautenhahn, Kerstin (University of Hertfordshire) | Scheutz, Matthias (Indiana University) | Demiris, Yiannis (Imperial College)
The third international conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2008) was held in Amsterdam, The Netherland, March 12-15, 2008. The theme of HRI-2008, "Living With Robots", highlights the importance of the technical and social issues underlying human-robot interaction with companion and assistive robots for long-term use in everyday life and work activities. More than two hundred and fifty researchers, practitioners, and exhibitors attended the conference, and many more contributed to the conference as authors or reviewers. HRI-2009 will be held in San Diego, California from March 11-13, 2009.
The Third International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Fong, Terry (NASA Ames Research Center) | Dautenhahn, Kerstin (University of Hertfordshire) | Scheutz, Matthias (Indiana University) | Demiris, Yiannis (Imperial College)
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2008) with robots," highlights the importance It also featured Foundation, and the European a panel on "robo-ethics" intended Network for the Advancement of Artificial to start a discussion of the ethical Cognitive Systems (EU Cognition) and societal implications of provided grants. More than 250 autonomous robots and a panel on representatives from academia, government, "what is HRI?" that examined the constitutive and industry attended HRI-components of human-robot 2008. HRI is the premier forum for the Of the 134 submissions, the program presentation and discussion of committee accepted 48 full research results in human-robot interaction. Human-robot interaction 27 submissions) were featured in a special is inherently interdisciplinary session. The workshops artificial intelligence, cognitive science, addressed metrics (an examination of ergonomics, human-computer proposed guidelines for evaluating interaction, psychology, robotics, and HRI), coding behavioral video data other fields. From 1997 to 2000, he was vice president of development for Fourth Planet, Inc., a developer of real-time visualization software. Fong has published more than 50 papers in field robotics, human-robot interaction, virtual reality user interfaces, and parallel processing, was chair of the 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium on human-robot interaction in space, and is cogeneral chair for HRI-2008. Kerstin Dautenhahn is the research professor of artificial intelligence in the School of Computer Science and coordinator of the Adaptive Systems Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. Save the Date! -- July 11-15, 2010 AAAI comes to Atlanta, Georgia in 2010! Please mark your calendars, and visit www. She was general chair of IEEE RO-MAN06 and cogeneral chair of HRI-2008. Scheutz was the coprogram chair for HRI-Seven student teams competed to award went to "Robots in Organizations: University of Amsterdam took top Jodi Forlizzi.