The Computational Creativity Curriculum

本计画将探讨“计算创造力”作为电脑科学、媒体艺术与认知科学跨学科课程的组织主题。该项目开发和评估了一种计算机科学教育方法，挑战学生发展计算创造力。计算创造力系统是模拟人类创造力中涉及的认知过程的计算系统，或者实现满足创造力标准的算法，即使它不是基于认知的。这个项目的目标是开发，在计算机科学和媒体艺术教师和本科生之间的联合工作，计算的创造力系统，在真实的艺术实践是有用的。这些系统将被扩展并用于计算机科学，媒体艺术和跨学科课程。该课程将整合研究和教学，同时吸引新的具有潜在创造力和多样化的学生进入计算机科学的学习。这个项目是实验性的，因为它试图以一种新颖的方式整合和交叉施肥两个或更多学科的课程。然而，成功的回报可能很高，因为计算创造力可能整合-并吸引学生和想法-计算机科学和媒体艺术之外的几个学科，包括认知心理学，教育和心灵哲学。该项目还将探讨如何使课程针对传统上在计算机科学中代表性不足的群体，并扩大到包括来自代表性不足群体的学生人数众多的社区学院的学生。软件（包括源代码）和课程材料将在互联网上分发，供其他机构应用。

This project will explore the utility of "computational creativity" as an organizing theme for interdisciplinary curricula in computer science, media arts, and cognitive science. The project develops and evaluates an approach to computer science education that challenges the students to develop computational creativity. A computational creativity system is a computational system that simulates the cognitive processes involved in human creativity, or that implements an algorithm that meets the criteria for creativity even if it is not cognitively based. The goal of this project is to develop, in joint work among computer science and media arts faculty and undergraduate students, computational creativity systems that are useful in real artistic practice. These systems will be extended and used in computer science, media arts, and interdisciplinary courses. The curriculum will integrate research and teaching while drawing new populations of potentially creative and diverse students into the study of computer science.This project is experimental because it seeks to integrate and cross-fertilize curricula in two and possibly more disciplines in a novel way. The payoff for success may be high, however, because computational creativity could potentially integrate -- and draw students and ideas from -- several disciplines beyond computer science and media arts, including, for example, cognitive psychology, education, and philosophy of mind. The project will also explore ways in which the curriculum could be targeted to groups traditionally underrepresented in computer science, and expanded to include students from community colleges with significant populations of students from underrepresented groups. Software (including source code) and curricular materials will be disseminated on the internet for application at other institutions.