Subject: Alan Turing Year From: "William J. Rapaport" Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:57:52 -0500 (EST) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ATY] Plans for the coming New Year Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:11:12 +0000 (GMT) From: S Barry Cooper To: CiE ALAN TURING YEAR LIST in 2010: As we enter 2010 (we hope this is a great year for the huge number of you signed up to the ATY list!) the Alan Turing Year bulletins will happen more often. We will try to keep them brief, but please do pass on any news or comments we might be able to share. Mostly, bulletins will be plain text with no attachments - for news and information with images and fancy layout, we will give links to the best webpages around. We assume you will all know about such great sources of information as: The Alan Turing Year Homepage http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/ The Turing Digital Archive http://www.turingarchive.org/ The Turing Archive for the History of Computing http://www.alanturing.net/ Turing100 in 2012 http://turing100.blogspot.com/ as well as the links at the bottom, such as the ATY Homepage and the lively Facebook and Twitter pages maintained by various people in the know. On the Turing Test front, Huma Shah passes on some information on interesting chatbot sites related to the 2008 Loebner Prize. She mentions four of the current best systems located on the web, with their Loebner 2008 originators: ELBOT - Fred Roberts: http://www.elbot.com/ EUGENE GOOSTMAN - Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko and Sergey Ulasen: http://www.princetonai.com/bot/bot.jsp ULTRA HAL - Medeksza: http://www.zabaware.com/webhal/index.html JABBERWACKY - Rollo Carpenter: http://www.jabberwacky.com/ ... and more recently CLEVERBOT: http://www.cleverbot.com/ We think Alan Turing would have been interested in these ... they do owe their very existence to him! All best Barry __________________________________________________________________________ ALAN TURING YEAR http://www.turingcentenary.eu Email: pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Alan-Turing-Year/199853901070 and http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Alan-Turing-Year/100000473465821 Twitter: http://twitter.com/AlanTuringYear __________________________________________________________________________