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CS4FN Issue 18

This edition of Computer Science for fun asks ‘Can Machines be Creative?’ The articles inside include:

  • The work of Ada Lovelace
  • Playfulness and creativity
  • The letter-writing algorithm that dare not speak its name
  • Teaching computers – a parent-child relationship
  • Defining creativity
  • Is computer art intentional? The Painting Fool software.
  • Computer-written stories and the sources of their inspiration
  • Compression in human brains and music listening.
  • Robot-human interaction – how to keep the human interested.
  • ‘Sexual reproduction’ and musical creativity with computer science
  • The sorcerer’s apprentice – an AI computer for making new magic tricks
  • AI zombie run game
  • Creative Twitterbots: metaphor machines
  • The different meanings of the word ‘block’.

The magazine is edited by Paul Curzon, Jo Brodie and Peter W. McOwan

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