2006 Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence

This year's Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence will be held in UCL's VR theatre at their 1-19 Torrington Place campus, off Tottenham Court Road in central London WC1. The date for the contest is Sunday 17 September 2006.

The Prize is based on Alan Turing's Imitation Game formulated in his seminal 1950 piece Computing Machinery & Intelligence.

If anyone would like to attend, please contact me on huma@loebnerprize.org in order for names to be passed to UCL's security.

Some news items relating to one of the entrants and winner of Loebner 2005 can be found here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5303126.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/04/nscience04.xml

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2341457,00.html#

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1303512006

Link to Loebner Prize home page: http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html