18th Annual Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence
12 October 2008
University of Reading, Reading, UK
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Fred Roberts and Artificial Solutions |
1st Place |
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Eugene Goostman
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2nd Place |
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Ultra Hal
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Robert Medeksza
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3rd Place
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Jabberwacky
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Rollo Carpenter |
4th Place |
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| Brother Jerome | Peter Cole & Benji Adams |
5th Place
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Acknowledgements:
Loebner Prize Team at University of Reading
Organiser: Professor Kevin Warwick http://www.kevinwarwick.com/
Coordinator: Huma Shah http://humashah.blogspot.com/
Technical Director: Dr Ian Bland http://www.reading.ac.uk/sse/
Technical Manager: Chris Chapman http://www.reading.ac.uk/sse/
Contest Day: Tristan Matthews (Masters student, Cybernetics)
MATT message-by-message Communications Protocol Developer: Marc Allan http://www.1bdi.co.uk/matt/
Media Team: Alex Brannen, Dr Lucy Chappell
Behind the scenes leading up to contest day: Carole Leppard, Lucy Virtue, Nellie Round Sandra Ilett
Preliminary Phase Judges during June and July
Scott Jensen, a Marketing Executive from La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA began the judging process in the 2008 Loebner Prize as the first preliminary phase interrogator.
Other judges in this, first stage, were based as far apart as Australia, India, Canada, France, Sweden, Germany Austria and in the UK; they included expert (computer programmer) Chris Tucker and the following:
Pupils from Kendrick Girls School, Reading UK
Andrew McGregor - Harrow Boys School http://www.
Luke Denham
Arnab Majumdar
Petra Gieselmann
Tim Soleil
Hash Ahmed
Iva Fukova
Jutta Weber
Maria La Fosca
Doris Allhutter
Khatira Shikhiyeva
Elena Poles
Evangelia Chaligianni
Hakki Ozzer
Thomas Joyce
Thomas Roth-Berghofer
Peter Shaw
Sarwar Muzaffar
Luka Crnkovic-Dodig
Roger Duthie
Mark Gasson
Mattie Whitehead
Emma Archibald
Brian Merison
Will Browne
Vesa Karhila
Helen Thomas'
and Students from Reading University