Creativity

Stephen L. Thaler - Creator of the neural-network based Creativity Machine. Thaler has proposed it as a model of consciousness in which a neural network manifests what he calls a stream of consciousness while a second network filters the outputs from the first network. Thaler claims that these immense neural network cascades are capable of human level invention, discovery, and artistic creativity. Holds patents in the areas of neural networks, optimization, and the construction of sentient machines.
http://www.imagination-engines.com/thaler.htm

Creative Systems Group of Coimbra - People working in AI and Creativity
http://eden.dei.uc.pt/~amilcar/CreativeSystems/

Ashok Goel - Ashok Goel is an Associate Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. Research in various aspects of design includes investigation of the creative exploration involved in solving problems.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/aimosaic/faculty/goel/

Artificial Creativity in Linguistics - Using genetic algorithms to create English words.
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jkunken/glot-bot/

SWALE Project Home Page: Case-Based Creativity - This site, maintained by David Leake at Indiana University, describes the SWALE project's case-based reasoning approach to generating creative explanations. A simplified version of the SWALE code is available.
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~leake/projects/swale

Chris Thornton - Collection of papers relevant to artificial creativity and intelligence.
http://www.cogs.sussex.ac.uk/users/christ/

Raul Valdes-Perez - Papers on scientific discovery and applications to chemistry.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sci-disc/

Melanie Mitchell - Currently at the Santa Fe Institute. Melanie Mitchell developed Copycat as part of her dissertation work with Douglas Hofstadter on cognitive modeling of high-level perception and analogy-making.
http://www.santafe.edu/~mm/

William H. Calvin - Theoretical neurophysiologist and author of "The Cerebral Code", and "How Brains Think".
http://williamcalvin.com/index.html

Margaret Boden - Author of "The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms", Boden's interests are in the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques for understanding human creativity.
http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/maggieb

il sogno di Eliza - A project about creative interaction between artificial and human intelligence producing a story, a real fiction book. The author uses several pieces of software to create the plot, the dialogues, to find new path or check the older one. Written in Italian the result is a fiction of 160 pages.
http://www.ilsognodieliza.com/