Hello there. I'm Simon Colton, a Reader in Computational Creativity and EPSRC Leadership Fellow at the Department of Computing of Imperial College London. Here are some details:

• I'm an Artificial Intelligence researcher, specialising in questions of computational creativity. In particular, I lead the Computational Creativity Group. We develop novel AI techniques, and integrate existing techniques to show that the whole can be more than a sum of the parts when applied to creative tasks. We apply our techniques to creative tasks in domains such as pure mathematics, bioinformatics, visual arts, graphic design and video game design.
  • Our group web pages are here:

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  • My full publication list is here: Publications list
  • A detailed breakdown of my research and papers is available here: Research interests

• I'm the guy behind The Painting Fool, which is a computer program that aspires to be an artist. For information, please click here: www.thepaintingfool.com.
• I'm one of the academic leaders of the EPSRC funded Industry/Academia Research Network on AI and Games. Please see www.aigamesnetwork.org for more details.
• I teach courses on Artificial Intelligence to both undergraduate and postgraduate classes. My teaching pages are here.
• I'm involved in organising various activities within the AI research world. For details of the events I'm associated with, please see: my events page.
• Some recent invited talks:
  Goldsmiths Whitehead, Jan. 2012
  EU BISON, Dec. 2010     ION Assets, Nov. 2010     GAMEON, Nov. 2010     DMU, Nov. 2010    
  CSL, Oct. 2010     BC Madrid, Sept. 2010     UKCI, Sept. 2010     CPS, July. 2010     IdeasLab, June. 2010
  WoMo, May. 2010     SGI, March. 2010     MBR, December. 2009