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Professor Geraint Wiggins, Professor of Computational Creativity, will be holding his Inaugural Lecture on Wednesday 16th March 2016 at 6.30pm.
Creativity is often proposed as a feature of humanity that sets us apart from other species. In this lecture, I will deconstruct the concept of creativity, suggesting that the view we have inherited from the Romantics is unhelpfully narrow. Working from a more practical definition, I will propose a view of creativity as a property of advanced cognition, including, but not limited to, humans, that can in principle be implemented as a computer program.
The lecture will end with a recorded performance of my piece “from spiralling ecstatically thisâ€, a setting* of E. E. Cummings' poem, itself concerned with creation.
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Professor Geraint Wiggins | talks |
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Date and Time: |
16 March 2016 at 6:30 pm |
Duration: | 2 hours |
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Venue: |
The Octagon |
Organised by: |
Events Office, Queen Mary University of London |
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Tickets: |
Free |
Available from: |
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-geraint-wiggins-cognition-information-and-creativity-tickets-21376792562 |
Additional Information: |
For any further information please contact b.prescott@qmul.ac.uk / events@qmul.ac.uk Nearest Stations: Stepney Green & Mile End |
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