Simon Colton
Simon Colton (London, 1973)[1] is a British computer scientist, currently working in the Computational Creativity Group at Goldsmiths College in the University of London, where he is Professor of Computational Creativity.[2] He previously led a research group of the same name at Imperial College, London in the position of Reader. He graduated from the University of Durham with a degree in Mathematics, gained a MSc. in Pure Mathematics at the University of Liverpool, and finally a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Professor Alan Bundy.
Simon is the driving force behind thepaintingfool.com,[3] an artificial intelligence that he hopes will one day be accepted as an artist in its own right. His work,[4] along with that of Maja Pantic and Michel Valstar, won the British Computing Society Machine Intelligence Award in 2007. The work has also been the subject of some media attention.[1]
Prior to his work on The Painting Fool, Simon worked on the HR tool, a reasoning tool that was applied to discover mathematical concepts. The system successfully discovered theorems and conjectures, some of which were novel enough to become published works.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 El Pais - "Las máquinas dan signos de saber apreciar la pintura" elpais.com 25.09.2010. Accessed June 22, 2011.
- ↑ http://ccg.doc.gold.ac.uk/simoncolton/
- ↑ The Painting Fool
- ↑ Simon Colton List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server. Accessed June 22, 2011.
- ↑ Rise of the Robogeeks - New Scientist