Code, Chords & Clues: Steve Engels on AI-Powered Music and Forensic Games

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In this episode, Professor Steve Engels joins us in discussing his research in artificial creativity in automated music generation and designing video games for forensic science education. Through this discussion, we learn about his motivations for this line of research and the use of video games to aid education.

Steve Engels is a Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he has been teaching courses in computer hardware, artificial intelligence and video game design. Steve's research interests lie in game design & programming, educational game design, artificial creativity (e.g. automatic music generation), open data and artificial intelligence applications.