Joseph Weintraub wins Loebner Prize (again)

Joseph Weintraub's computer entry "PC Professor" is the undefeated
champion of  natural language computing. His program has earned this
title by winning the Loebner  Prize each of the four times it has been
entered.  His entry, PC Professor, was  judged "more human" than
entries submitted by Dr. Thomas Whalen (last year's  winner), Mr.
Robby Garner, and Mr. Philip Maymin, whose entries were ranked in that 
order.  

The Loebner Prize Competition is the annual Turing Test in which a
prize is awarded  to the computer program judged "most human" by a
panel of judges.  Judges for this  competition were:
 
Steven Cherry,  Executive Editor, Magazines, Association 
    for Computing Machinery
Earl Cox, Author
Robert Gebeloff, Technical Writer, Bergen (NJ) Record
Robert Knight, Host, Radio Station WBAI
Elaine Rivera, Correspondent, Time Magazine
Joel Swerdlow, Senior Writer, National Geographic Magazine

In the Loebner Prize Contest, judges have evaluated computer entries
against human  subjects in conversations over computer terminals. 

The 1995 Loebner Prize Contest (the fifth contest) was held  Saturday,
December  16th at the Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave NYC.

The 1996 Contest is scheduled to be held April 19th 1996 also at the
Salmagundi Culb  in NYC (time and place subject to change).

The Loebner Prize Contest was made possible by the generous support of
The IBM  Corpation, Sun Micro Systems, and QVS Company (Romulus MI). 
Contestants Whalen and  Maymin provided substantial help and technical
support in the contest set-up.


Further information is available at 

http:info.acm.org/~loebner/loebner-prize-1995.html

Further information is also available directly from Dr.Hugh Loebner at 
loebner@acm.org