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Feb. 3 Student Presentation Matierials
For the class presentation on Tuesday, we will be examining the philosophical underpinnings of IP law, and their relation to creativity and creation. The brief assigned reading below is a […]
Science Magazine on Mathematical Creativity
There was a great article published today in Science about mathematicians, where their funding comes from, and how it affects the research they do (and I’ll unabashedly say that I think mathematics […]
Sim City’s Simulacrum of Poverty
I was recently thinking over an article that appeared in News of the Week some time back, one dealing with the phenomenon of homelessness in the recently released video game […]
Online Monitoring
We’ve been hearing for a long time about NSA surveillance online. Turns out, our own CSE was at it as well. Not so much a constraint on online creativity, but […]
When does similarity become plagiarism?
Tom Petty receives writing credit on Sam Smith hit Stay With Me This recent article in the Globe and Mail reminded me of our class discussion on stand-up comedians and […]
Coding Style and Digital Creativity
I saw some raised eyebrows last week when I said that I could tell, in the Google v Oracle case, that two different programmers had touched the nine lines of code […]
Open-Access Publication: Creativity, Constraints, and Ethics
A very interesting short piece about the recent surge in open-access journals. As a bit of background about the “traditional” and “open” manners of publishing scientific papers: In the traditional form, authors […]
Creativity Without Law
This is a webcast of a conference that took place this past November entitled “Creativity Without Law”, co-sponsored by the Harvard Berkman Center: The event will focus on the growing body […]
AI and Creativity
Today in class, we talked briefly about artificial intelligence (AI) and what it means for creativity. I thought this article that I saw yesterday comparing the smartness and creativity of […]
Constraints Made Google and Mick Jagger Great–and They’ll Make You a Better Entrepreneur
Here is another piece that glorifies constraints – this time in an entrepreneurial rather than creative context. In doing so it arguably provides a clue as to what lies behind […]