Kate Compton

Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Dr Kate Compton (galaxykate) is a long-time generative artist, inventor, programmer, and new Assistant Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University. She wrote the first paper on procedural platform-game levels, generated the planets for the video game Spore, created the language Tracery which runs over 10000 community-made bots on Twitter, and invented an early phone-based AR system. Her mission is to design artificial intelligence to augment human creativity, and to create tools that brings AI into the hands of poets, artists, kids, and weirdos.

Dec 8, 2020 11:30:00 GMT-0800