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Hugh Gene Loebner

Contact me: hugh[at]loebner[dot]net

Who am I?- What the press says:

"New York Philanthropist" The New York Times - 5 November 1991
"A Regular John – and Proud of It" New York Newsday - 25 August 1994
"A Dreamer" The Atlantic Monthly - August 1994
"A Maverick" Wired - April 1995
"A Shining Figure" ("Eine Schillernder Figur") Der Spiegel - 5 May 1997 (Text only - German, and English translation)
"A Strange Character" The Village Voice (NY) (When The VV calls you "a strange character" you know that you are pushing the envelope)
"John and Philanthropist" Time Out New York - 14 November 1996
"A Fluent and Lateral Thinker" The Weekend Australian - 10-11 January 1998
"Gadfly - about - New York" Newsday- 28 March 1999
"Don Quixote." - Salon.com - Feb. 26, 2003 ( My response March 7, 2003 )

Some Of My Interests

Sponsor: The Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence ("The First Turing Test")

( Click Here for the English Translation of the SDJ article )

Social Activist for the decriminalization of prostitution.

Author of: Magna Carta for Sex Work

Recipient of two awards by Sex Workers

The Aspasia Award

Coyote LA
"Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" Award

This was presented at the March, 1997 International Conference on Prostitution (ICOP),
with California State University, Northridge by Norma Jean Almodovar

A few selected sex work activist links:
- Whore Activist Network: www.whoreact.net
- Prostitute's Education Network: www.bayswan.org/penet.html
- International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education: www.iswface.org
- Coalition to Decriminalize Prostitution: www.sexwork.com
- Prostitutes of NY (PONY): www.bayswan.org/PONY.html
- COYOTE- Los Angeles: www.freedomusa.org
- Foundation for Research on Sexually Transmitted Diseases (FROST'D) www.whoreact.net/frostd.html
- Exotic Dancer's Alliance: www.bayswan.org/EDAindex.html

Inventor: US Patents
- 4,949,079 "Brightpen/pad graphic device for computer inputs and the like"
- 5,073,770 "Brightpen/pad II"
- 5,159,322 "Apparatus to digitize graphic and scenic information and to determine the position of a stylus for input into a computer or the like"
- 5,525,060 "Multiple language learning aid"
- 6,019,393 "Planar Means for Indicating a Gratuity as a Function"
  Abstract: Optional gratuities in the food and beverage industry may be defined on a planar surface as a percentage function of the cost of meals instead of an absolute dollar amount. This eliminates the necesity of the customer having to perform arithmetic calculations.
  
  Note: Diagrams on patent website are in an obscure form, for pdf format for figures, click desired figure
  Fig 1 Fig 2 Fig 3 Fig 4 Fig 5 Fig 6 Fig 7
- Taiwan patent NI-66800 (assigned to Witty Mate Trading Co., Ltd)
Activist, The Olympic Fraud (The Olympic "Gold" Medals aren't)
(or Attempting to Restore Integrity to the Olympics)

No, I don't mean the sleazy bribery scandal. I refer to the much more outrageous fraud regarding the Olympic medals.

Read about The True Olympic Scandal. Did you know that since the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, the "gold" medals have been merely gold plated? It used to be at: Chapter 5, Rule 70, Para 2 of the Olympic charter but the Committee has removed all references to the composition of the medals (out of guilt [gilt?] perhaps)

How I learned of the fraud. My Olympic Gold Medal Fraud speech, read at the 8th Annual Loebner Prize Contest in Sydney Australia. January 1998

The Shroud of Secrecy" regarding Manufacturing the Silver Gilt Medals

The Story of the Olympic Medals