In this book, creativity in technology is discussed using a computational approach. Examining 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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This book is about creativity and the nature of the creative process in technological invention. The author shows how certain ideas in cognitive science and artificial intelligence can be used to analyse, describe and explain an important invention taken from the history of computer technology.
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Among the many features of the mind that humans have chosen to speculate on, few evoke a greater sense of enigma than creativity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stored program computer form, misfit identification, diode matrices, rules about entities, order address mechanism, diode matrix, microprogramming concept, personal knowledge body, order interpreter, artificial sciences, knowledge tokens, goal that the task, microprogrammed control unit, successor address, disadvantageous character, condition flag, goal graph, relevant registers, main control unit, producing goal, computational metaphor, control matrix, entity satisfying, order tank, eight pulses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maurice Wilkes, United States, Kubla Khan, Herbert Simon, Moore School, Apply R-Instl, Hans Krebs, Karl Popper, Olivetti Research Laboratory, Retrieve R-Instl, Antoine Lavoisier, Arthur Koestler, Howard Gruber, Storage Unit, Thomas Kuhn, Alan Turing New!
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Among the many features of the mind that humans have chosen to speculate on, few evoke a greater sense of enigma than creativity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stored program computer form, misfit identification, diode matrices, rules about entities, order address mechanism, diode matrix, microprogramming concept, personal knowledge body, order interpreter, artificial sciences, knowledge tokens, goal that the task, microprogrammed control unit, successor address, disadvantageous character, condition flag, goal graph, relevant registers, main control unit, producing goal, computational metaphor, control matrix, entity satisfying, order tank, eight pulses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maurice Wilkes, United States, Kubla Khan, Herbert Simon, Moore School, Apply R-Instl, Hans Krebs, Karl Popper, Olivetti Research Laboratory, Retrieve R-Instl, Antoine Lavoisier, Arthur Koestler, Howard Gruber, Storage Unit, Thomas Kuhn, Alan Turing New!
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- The Act of Creation (Arkana) by Arthur Koestler on 8 pages
- Antoine Lavoisier by Frederic Lawrence Holmes on page 3, page 11, and page 28
- The Sciences of the Artificial - 3rd Edition by Herbert A. Simon on page 7, page 9, and Back Matter
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on page 6, page 212, and Back Matter
- The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) by T. S. Eliot on page 49, and page 214
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- Computational Intelligence for Decision Support (International Series on Computational Intelligence) by Zhengxin Chen on page 208
- Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Studies in Cognitive Systems) by Terry Dartnall on page 322
- Salaam Stanley Matthews by Subrata Dasgupta in Front Matter
- Creativity in Product Innovation by Jacob Goldenberg on page 41
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