Britton Horn

PhD Student

  • BS, Trinity University

Britton Horn is a doctoral student at Northeastern University's Khoury College of Computer Sciences, advised by Seth Cooper. He is interested in computational creativity, artificial intelligence, and the vast capacity and applicable opportunities of human creativity. Britton's research is focused on procedural content generation (PCG) and evaluating ways of visualizing PCG systems to better understand their output. In his research, he looks into both human and computational creativity and finds it fascinating that people are creative on a daily basis without realizing it.

He started tinkering with computers at a young age while growing up in Houston, Texas, and discovered a way to combine his interests for the arts and computers when he started researching procedural content generation. Britton would like for his research to help others better understand human creativity and how they can harness their creative power to learn and be more productive. After receiving his doctorate, Britton would like to enter an academic career where he can teach the next generation of computer scientists. He wants his research to show that computer science, especially artificial intelligence, can be applied to almost everything in life and interdisciplinary endeavors can be extremely innovative.