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SUMMARY:Some Issues in Computational Design Creativity - Prof David C. Bro
 wn - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
DTSTART:20120718T150000Z
DTEND:20120718T160000Z
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CONTACT:Labi Ariyo
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:* Computational Design Systems used to refer just to
  numerical analysis\, or perhaps simulation\, but in the early 1980s a num
 ber of researchers started to apply concepts from Artificial Intelligence 
 to build models of designing and also systems that designed given requirem
 ents. The field has progressed since then\, with research appearing in the
  AI in Engineering\, AI in Design\, and Design Computing & Cognition confe
 rences\, as well as in journals such as AI EDAM. Over the years\, more com
 plex and difficult issues have been addressed\, with the original areas su
 ch as Configuration and Routine Design fairly well mastered. Now\, twenty 
 years later\, attention is being paid to issues such as design teams\, fun
 ctional reasoning\, and computational creativity. In this talk we will rev
 iew some of the issues that make Computational Design Creativity difficult
 . \n\n\n\n*About the speaker:* David Brown is Professor of Computer Scienc
 e and has a collaborative appointment as Professor of Mechanical Engineeri
 ng at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He was the Editor in Chief of the C
 ambridge UP journal AIEDAM: AI in Engineering\, Design\, Analysis and Manu
 facturing for 10 years\, and is on the Editorial Boards of several Journal
 s\, including: Concurrent Engineering: Research and Application. Prof. Bro
 wn is the author (with B. Chandrasekaran) of the book Design Problem Solvi
 ng: Knowledge Structures and Control Strategies\, Morgan Kaufmann Publishe
 rs\, Inc.\, and a co-editor of Intelligent Computer Aided Design\, Elsevie
 r Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland)
LOCATION:Arthur Marshall Meeting Room (next to EDC loft)\, Inglis Building
 \, Engineering Department
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