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-- Invitation to join --
International Society for Computational Modelling of Creative Processes
Aims & Purpose
to promote the development of formal representations for creative
processes and the implementation of these processes on computing
machines
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In October of 1994, a new professional society was formed --
International Society for Computational Modelling of Creative Processes
Considering recent developments in generative grammars, genetic
algorithms and other research in computer and cognitive science, this
society was formed to promote the development of formal representations
for creative processes and the implementation of these processes on
computing machines.
This international, interdisciplinary society is devoted to research in all
forms of computational modelling of creative processes. The society
welcomes researchers employing computational techniques to model the
synthesis of literary and non-literary texts, music, and visual works
including art, dance, theater, architecture and all types of design.
This multidisciplinary focus is reflected by the board of directors and the
editorial board of the journal of the society, _Languages of design_, which
includes linguists and literary theorists, music theorists and composers,
computer scientists and researchers in artificial intelligence, artists,
architects, and art critics. The special interests of the society focuses on
formal design theory, generative grammars, shape grammars, computational
musicology, and computational aesthetics. All forms of computational
modelling are reported in the society journal including formal languages,
finite state automata, grammatical inference, pattern recognition, cellular
automata, semantic networks, connectionism, and syntactical analysis. A
broad variety of analytic perspectives are represented, including syntactics,
semiotics, deconstruction, hermeneutics, stylistics, narratology, philology,
morphology, prosody, harmony theory, formal musicology, and performance
analysis.
Society membership is open to anyone interested in current research
applying computational methods to the synthesis of words, images, sounds
and movement.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR
International Society for Computational Modelling of Creative Processes
Bernard Bel: Centre for Human Sciences, New Delhi, India
Shi Kuo Chang: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Subrata Dasgupta: University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA
Clive L. Dym: Harvey Mudd College, Clairemont, CA, USA
Ernest Edmonds: Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, UK
John Gero: University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Goffredo Haus: University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Carl Machover: Machover Assoc., White Plains, NY, USA
Rani Siromoney: Madras Christian College, Madras, India
Martin Sperka: Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS FOR
International Society for Computational Modelling of Creative Processes
President - Raymond Lauzzana: Penrose Press, San Francisco, USA
Vice President - Alan Turransky: George Mason University, USA
Sec/Treasurer - Denise Penrose: Addison-Wesley, Reading, USA
EDITORIAL BOARD OF
_Languages of design_
Mira Balaban, Israel Bernard Bel, India
Paul Berg, The Netherlands Mario Borillo, France
Jose Luis Caivano, Argentina Lelio Camilleri, Italy
David Carrier, USA Kermit Champa, USA
Gianni degli Antoni, Italy Bulat Galeyev, Russia
Joan Kirsch, USA Russell Kirsch, USA
Terry Knight, USA Ramesh Krishnamurti, USA
Kamala Krithivasan, India Otto Laske, USA
John P. Leavey Jr, USA Tod Machover, USA
Roger Malina, USA Frieder Nake, Germany
Davide Nardoni, Italy Ding Ning, China
Yoshikuni Okawa, Japan Gerald Prince, USA
Judson Rosebush, USA Azriel Rosenfeld, USA
Martin Sperka, Slovakia Dominico Spinelli, USA
Randall Stickrod, USA George Stiny, USA
Johan Sundberg, Sweden Eero Tarasti, Finland
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SOCIETY ACTIVITIES --
The society collaborates with educational institutions, commercial
research enterprises and other professsional societies through its
publications, the promotion of special events, participation at symposia,
and an annual awards program. The first annual prize to be awarded by
the society will be the "1996 Award for the Best Computational Model of
a Creative Process. "
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS --
-- an annual subscription(four issues) to Languages of design, the
society journal. This is more than a 70% discount on the regular
subcription price of the journal.
-- an annual subscription to the society newsletter containing news of
member and society activities.
-- a package of discounts on books, journals, events, etc. including
discounts on Leonardo, International Directory of Design and International
Directory of Electronic Artists(IDEA). Other discounts to be announced.
-- access to the society's ftp site on the World-Wide Web for the
dissemination of member information.
MEMBERSHIP DUES -- US$81 per year
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TO JOIN, WRITE:
Society for Computational Modelling of Creative Processes (SCMCP)
PO 470925
San Francisco, CA 94147
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For free review copy of the society journal, _Languages of design_, write
Eefke Smit
Elsevier Science Publishers,
PO 103
Amsterdam 1000AC, The Netherlands
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