Computational Models of Creativity in Design

Computational Models of Creativity in Design

Professor John Gero
Professor of Design Science
Co-Director, Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition
University of Sydney

Tuesday 30th August 2005 at 11am

Abstract

For many the confluence and computers and creativity is a contradiction. This seminar presents results of computational explorations of design creativity. It describes models of creativity and demonstrates computational processes based on human behaviour as well as computational processes derived from other sources. It presents results from such human design processes as analogy and combination as well as computational design processes derived from genetic engineering.

The seminar then shows how the interaction between individuals plays an important role in the continuing production of creative designs. The talk concludes with the presentation of results from computational models of creativity treating designing as a social act, rather than simply as an individual act, through the diffusion of ideas

Short resume

John Gero is Professor of Design Science and Co-Director of the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, School of Architecture, Design Science and Planning, at the University of Sydney. He is the author or editor of 39 books and over 500 papers in the fields of design science, artificial intelligence, optimization and computer-aided design. He has been a Visiting Professor of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science or Cognitive Science at MIT, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia and CMU in the USA, at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK, at INSA-Lyon and Provence in France and at EPFL-Lausanne in Switzerland. His former doctoral students are professors in the USA, UK, Australia, Singapore and Korea.

He has been the recipient of many excellence awards including the Harkness Fellowship, two Fulbright Fellowships, two SRC Fellowships and various named chairs. He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals related to computer-aided design, artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering and is the chair of the international conference series Artificial Intelligence in Design, the new conference series Design Computing and Cognition and the international conference series Computational Models of Creative Design.

Professor Gero is also an international consultant in the field of computer-aided design and artificial intelligence.

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