[Corpora-List] 2nd Call: Autumn School on Computational Creativity, Nov 18-22, Porvoo, Finland

[Alessandro Valitutti]

Call for participation

PROSECCO Autumn School on Computational Creativity

November 18-22, 2013, Porvoo, Finland
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/ascc2013

Grant application deadline: Oct 1st
Registration deadline: Oct 1st/Nov 1st


The University of Helsinki and the PROSECCO Network for Promoting the
Scientific Exploration of Computational Creativity will organize an
international autumn school on computational creativity. We cordially
invite PhD and MSc students and interested researchers to participate 
in
the school.


Creativity is a long-cherished and widely-studied aspect of human
behavior that allows us to re-invent the familiar and to imagine the
new. Computational Creativity (CC) is a recent but burgeoning area of
creativity research that explores the potential of computers to be
autonomously creative or to collaborate as co-creators with humans.

As a scientific endeavor, CC proposes that computational modeling can
yield important insights into the fundamental capabilities of both
humans and machines. As an engineering endeavor, CC claims that it is
possible to construct autonomous software artifacts that achieve novel
and useful ends that are deserving of the label "creative". If
sufficiently nurtured, the products of CC research can have a
significant impact on many aspects of modern life, with particular
consequences for the worlds of entertainment, culture, science,
education, design and art.


The autumn school covers computational creativity from several 
different
angles, in lectures given by leading experts:

Tony Veale, University College Dublin, Ireland:
- Introduction to Computational Creativity
- Creativity as Web Service

Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK:
- Building an Automated Painter
- Philosophical and Formalisation Issues
- Guiding Principles of Building Creative Systems

Geraint A. Wiggins, Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK:
- Computational Creativity in Music and Music Cognition

Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University, Israel:
- Optimal Innovation and Creative Interpretations of Literal and
  Non-Literal Language
- On the Priority of Nonsalient Interpretations - Negative Sarcasm:
  Online and context-based studies

Amilcar Cardoso, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal:
- Conceptual Blending in Computational Concept Creation

Pablo Gervaś, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain:
- Computational Creativity in Literary Artifacts: Narrative and Poetry

Nada Lavrač, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia:
- Text mining for Creative Cross-Domain Knowledge Discovery

Rob Saunders, University of Sidney, Australia:
- Multi-agent Simulations of Social Creativity

Graeme Ritchie, University of Aberdeen:
- Evaluating Quality in Creative Systems

Bipin Indurkhya, International Institute of Information Technology
(IIIT), Hyderabad, India:
- A Hands-on Creativity Workshop


We also encourage participants to demonstrate/exhibit/perform/play/cite
either their scientific work in computational creativity or the 
creative
results in a special session.

While we primarily target audience with a background in computing, we
very warmly welcome participants from other related disciplines.
Especially, we hope to interact with students and researchers in
cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience, as well 
as
practitioners in musicology, literary theory/art theory, design theory,
and pedagogy.

The PROSECCO network offers grants for student and junior researchers 
to
participate in the school.


Important Dates:

Oct 1st: Registration and grant application deadline
Oct 10th: Grant committee's decisions communicated to applicants
Oct 17th: Last day for hotel reservations from our block
Nov 1st: Late registration deadline (no grants available)

More information and registration at http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/ascc2013


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