[Corpora-List] Call for participation: Autumn School on Computational Creativity 7-11 Nov.

[Alessandro Valitutti]

Call for participation

AUTUMN SCHOOL ON COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/ascc

7-11 November 2011
Porvoo, Finland

The University of Helsinki (together with Hecse and HIIT) will organize 
an international autumn school on computational creativity. We cordially 
invite PhD and MSc students and researchers who are interested in being 
introduced to various aspects of computational creativity by experts in 
the field. Previous experience of the field is not needed. We target 
audience that has background in computing, but we also welcome 
participants from other related disciplines.

The goal of computational creativity is to model, simulate or enhance 
creativity using computers. Different subfields of computational 
creativity include linguistic, musical and visual creativity, producing 
creative artifacts such as jokes, paintings, or musical pieces.

The autumn school covers computational creativity from different angles, 
first providing a general introduction and then focusing on more 
specific topics, including:

    * Introduction to Computational Creativity
    * Formal Definition of Creativity
    * Computational Modeling of Music Cognition
    * Musical Creativity
    * Automated Discovery and Mathematics
    * Automated Painting
    * Artistic Use of Swarm Computing
    * Computational Humor
    * Creative Information Retrieval
    * Computational Treatment of Affective and Persuasive Language

We are proud to announce that leading researchers in the field will 
lecture in the autumn school:

    * Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK
    * Graeme Ritchie, University of Aberdeen, UK
    * Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
    * Paulo Urbano, University of Lisbon, Portugal
    * Tony Veale, University College Dublin, Ireland
    * Geraint A. Wiggins, Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK

The autumn school is funded by Hecse, a Finnish doctoral programme in 
computer science. Since Hecse will cover the costs of the autumn school 
programme and organization, registration to the school is free of 
charge. Participants only pay for their accommodation and meals (and 
possibly for social programme). (For members of Hecse, all expenses will 
be covered by Hecse.)

The autumn school will take place on 7-11 November in Porvoo, Finland, 
50 km east of Helsinki.

Important dates:

    * Registration deadline: 26 Oct 2011
    * Registration deadline for Hecse members: 5 Oct 2011
    * Hotel reservations: a block of rooms is available in Hotel Sparre
      for reservations made by 7 Oct 2011 (mention "University of
      Helsinki" when booking)

For more information about the topics of the school, and about the 
venue, hotels and travel, see the school web site at 
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/ascc

Registration page: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/29404/lomake.html

Contact/School chairs:

Hannu Toivonen (hannu.toivonen at cs.helsinki.fi), general arrangements
Alessandro Valitutti (alessandro.valitutti at cs.helsinki.fi), programme

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