ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ENTRIES
                 1996 Loebner Prize Contest - $2000 and a medal

The 1996 Loebner Prize Competition in Artificial Intelligence will be held 
Friday, April, 19, 1996 in New York City.  A prize of $2000 and a bronze medal 
will be awarded to the individual or group whose computer entry is judged "most 
human."

The rules for the 1996 competition are the same as for the 1995 competition with 
the following exceptions:

1.  The Grand Prize of $100,000 will not be at risk. (*)

(*)  In order to win the Grand Prize, an entry in the contest must be prepared 
to deal with audio-visual input.  Anyone wishing to submit a computer entry 
having the capability to respond to a/v input in a "human" manner should notify 
the Project Director, Hugh Loebner loebner@acm.org.

2.  The closing date for entries is Friday, March 15, 1996 and the contest date 
is April 19,1996.

3.  The transcription data files shall be named LP96-nn.TXT eg LP96-01.TXT.  
    Where nn (00 -> 99)