IBM’s Watson team and Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics are pushing the boundaries of creative computing far beyond your next meal. Two years ago IBM started a ...

Meet Elbo, a striking piece of furniture, to say the least. It’s interesting not only because it looks a bit like a wooden skeleton, but also because of how it was designed: by a computer program.

Over the weekend, a senior researcher at Google spoke about how he and his team are trying to build a computer that can be creative. The inspiration behind the project, Eck explained, was to create a ...

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New research is calling for inventions by computers to be legally granted patents. The research states that the rapid increase in computer power is posing new challenges when it comes to patenting an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Old-school methods like the paintbrush and canvas aren't going anywhere, but computers are expanding our creative abilities. Three ...

Will computers ever replace humans in creative professions and pursuits? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

You've probably heard music composed by a computer algorithm, though you may not realize it. Artificial intelligence researchers have made huge gains in computational – or algorithmic – creativity ...

Roger Alsop receives funding from Melbourne Univesity. He is affiliated with Melbourne University and Box Hill Institute. The latest in our Computing turns 60 series, to mark the 60th anniversary of ...

In an issue of the French magazine La Nature dated June 7, 1890, I found an article about a competition for the design of a tower for the Paris World Exhibition in 1889. The winner, of course, was ...