Creativity in invention and design: computational and cognitive explorations of technological originality

Creativity is a topic that has traditionally interested psychologists, historians and biographers. Developments in cognitive science and artificial intelligence have provided a powerful computational framework in which creativity can be studied and the creative process can be described and explained...

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Main Author: Dasgupta, Subrata (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1994
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Summary:Creativity is a topic that has traditionally interested psychologists, historians and biographers. Developments in cognitive science and artificial intelligence have provided a powerful computational framework in which creativity can be studied and the creative process can be described and explained. In this book, creativity in technology is discussed using such a computational approach. Using an important historical episode in computer technology as a case study, namely the invention of microprogramming by Maurice Wilkes in 1951, the author presents a plausible explanation of the process by which Wilkes may have arrived at his invention. Based on this case study, the author has also proposed some very general hypotheses concerning creativity that appear to corroborate the findings of some psychologists and historians and then suggests that creative thinking is not significantly different in nature from everyday thinking and reasoning
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 250 pages)
ISBN:9780511530135
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511530135

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