Class7notes
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Preliminary Class Business
- Progress on the team topic pages
- Reminder of team assignments in next series of workshops
Creator Creatures
- Harold Cohen's Aaron
Is it art? Is it creative?
The "Bottom-Up" Direction in Creativity Research
- Rodney Brooks's robotics research
- The Golem Project
- Smalley, Eric. "Robots Emerge From Simulation." Technology Research News. 20 September 2000. Retrieved 24 April 2006. <http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/092000/Evolutionary_Robots.html>
Distributed, Collaborative Bottom-Up Creativity
- Steven Johnson, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (on slime molds, ants, etc.), p. 18
- Cellular automata
- John Conway's Game of Life (e.g., as implemented in Life32 by Johan Bontes]
- Steven Wolfram, A New Kind of Science
- images of celluar automata
- Douglas Hoftadter and the Fluid Analogies Research Group
- Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition (aka the Fluid Analogies Research Group)
- Hofstadter, Douglas. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. New York: Vintage, 1980.
- Hofstadter, Douglas, and the Fluid Analogies Research Group. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. New York: Basic, 1995.
Emergence (Complexity) Theory
- Holland, John H. Emergence from Chaos to Order. Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 1998.
- Nicolis, Grégoire, and Ilya Prigogine. Exploring Complexity: An Introduction. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1989.
- Kauffman, Stuart. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.
