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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      June 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511530135
      9780521430685
      9780521068895
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511530135
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.514kg, 272 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 272 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Computer Science, Computing and Society
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    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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    "Dasgupta offers an interesting and successful attempt to begin the work of understanding the creative process in the mind....His enthusiasm for the subject is obvious and infectious." Choice

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