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Author Dasgupta, Subrata.

Title Creativity in invention and design : computational and cognitive explorations of technological originality / Subrata Dasgupta
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Description xvi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Pt. I. Creativity in invention and design: issues and ingredients. 1. Creativity, invention and the computational metaphor. 2. A computational theory of scientific creativity. 3. Maurice Wilkes and the origins of microprogramming: the historical setting -- Pt. II. The invention of microprogramming: a cognitive explanation. 4. Prolegomenon. 5. The genesis of an idea: creating the initial sketch. 6. The evolution of an idea: from initial sketch to mature form -- Pt. III. Reflections on the nature of inventing. 7. Eight hypotheses about the nature of inventing -- 8. Epilogue -- App. Table A: Inference rules -- App. Table B: Facts -- App. Table C: Noninference rules -- App. Table D: Goals
Summary This book should be of interest to all those interested in creativity, including cognitive scientists, historians and philosophers of science, historians and philosophers of technology, and artificial intelligence researchers. It should also appeal to the general reader
Creativity is a topic that has traditionally interested psychologists, historians, and biographers. In recent years, 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 within such a computational framework. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index
Subject Creative ability in technology.
Creative thinking.
Microprogramming.
LC no. 93028650
ISBN 0521430682 (hardback)