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Hugh Gene Loebner

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)

Publisher, The Pants on Fire News
(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? Check Chapter 5, Rule 70, Para 2 of the Olympic charter (find "gilt" on the page.)

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

Each week the Pants on Fire News reports the lowser of the "Pants on Fire Award", a pair of underpants decorated with flames, to the N.Y. Times reporter who most frequently misrepresents the Olympic First Place silver gilt medals as 'gold' medals. during the week. On a convenient day in the following week, I picket the NY Times for about 30 minutes, distributing copies of the "Pants on Fire News" naming the loser. After picketing, I place the pants in a transparent plastic bag and drop them off at the mail room to be delivered to the losing reporter.

My Olympic Allegiance: "The Athletes' Advocate, Not The Committee's Apologist"

Picketing the NY Times
		The New York Times can not be held responsible for the fact that the IOC awards silver gilt medals instead of gold. However, it is certainly within the power of the New York Times to report the facts accurately.
Photo by Miranda Richmond

Are you an Olympic Athlete? Consider taking:

"An Olympian's (Future Conditional) OATH"

I, <name>, an Olympic Athlete,
Would join with my fellow Olympians in Unanimous Compact
To refrain from participation in the Olympic Games
While given Gilt when promised Gold
Click here for a comment on the oath
"The Shroud of Secrecy" regarding Manufacturing the Silver Gilt Medals
The Story of the Olympic Medals