ICCC 2016 conference

IDG members Antonios Liapis and Phil Lopes have attended the International Conference of Computational Creativity (ICCC) in Paris to present exciting new work from the Institute. ICCC is a lively conference which studies the art, science, philosophy and engineering of computational systems which exhibit behaviors that unbiased observers would deem to be creative. This year, ICCC included a plethora of talks describing impressive applications of creative software for music generation and improvisation, game level generation, computational poetry, 2D and 3D art and more.

The conference was preceded by a 1-day workshop on Computational Creativity & Games (CCGW), organized by IDG members Antonios Liapis and Georgios N. Yannakakis, along with Mike Cook and Chong-U Lim. You can find information about the workshop, its accepted papers, and videos of the talks here. In total, 4 papers authored or co-authored by IDG members were presented in ICCC and CCGW and covered AI-assisted game design, artificial evolution driven by surprise, level generation for horror games and generation of adventure games based on Wikipedia articles.