1996 Loebner Prize Information

Venue:

The sixth running of the Loebner Prize Contest, the 1996 Contest, was held 11:00 AM, Tuesday, April 16th, 1996 at :

The Andrus Gallery at Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th St
15th Floor
New York, NY 10019

This is the second year that the contest was unrestricted. Judges were not restricted in the questions that they asked the computers (or human confederate).

Results

• First place: Jason Hutchens -- Contest Transcript
• Second Place: Robby Garner -- Contest Transcript
• Third Place: Joseph Weintraub -- Contest Transcript
• Fourth Place:Thad Crews -- Contest Transcript
• Fifth Place: Ed T. Toton III -- Contest Transcript

Human Confederate

The human confederate for the 1996 contest was:

• Ms.Tracy Quan , Contributing Editor for Urban Desires -- Contest Transcript

Judges

Judges for the 1996 Loebner Prize Contest were:

• Raman Chandrasekar CASI/Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Univ of Pennsylvania
• Matt Feiszli, Senior, Yale University, double-major in Psychology and Computer Science.
• Robert Fox, Associate Editor, Association for Computing Machinery
• Tom Lambert, Associate Editor, Association for Computing Machinery
• Peter Mattei, Senior Writer, iguide 620 6th Avenue, NYC 10010 Phone 212-462-5211 Fax 462-6944

Support

The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies and Dr. Loebner thank the following organizations for their gracious support of the 1996 contest.

• The IBM PC company, Research Triangle, NC. for the use of IBM computers and monitors
• QVS Inc, Romulus MI, cables and accessories
• Crown Industries, Inc, East Orange NJ, for the donation of curtains, curtain supports, stanchions and chains

The communications program for interaction between judges and confederates was programmed by Don Fricault. Loebner Prize Home Page

Hugh Loebner's Homepage