(Rev 4/30/97)

1997 Loebner Prize Contest Results

The 1997 Loebner Prize Contest, the seventh annual Loebner prize contest, was held:

11:00 AM, Tuesday, April 29, 1997
Salmagundi Club,
47 Fifth Ave,
New York NY 10003

The Loebner Prize Medal and a cash award is awarded annually to the designerof the computer system that best succeeds in passing a variant of the TuringTest. In 1997, $2,000 and a bronze medal was awarded to David Levy, designerof the Most Human Computer as rated by a panel of 5 judges.

The Loebner Prize Competition in Artificial Intelligence was establishedin 1990 by Hugh Loebner and the Cambridge (Massachusetts) Center for Behavioral Studies.

The contest was held under the supervision of George Lowe, Ph.D., Technical Director.

Results:

  1. David Levy
    Intelligent Research Ltd
    89, Constantine Road,
    London NW3 2LP, England.
    Telephone number: +44 171 485 9146
    Fax number: +44 171 482 0672
    DavidL@intrsrch.demon.co.uk

    Click for transcript of winning program "Converse"


  2. Jason Hutchens and Bruce Cooper
    The Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems
    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    The University of Western Australia
    Nedlands, WA, AUSTRALIA 6907
    Telephone:+61 9 331 2340 (during US working hours)
    +61 9 380 3856 (out of US working hours)
    Facsimile:+61 9 380 1168
    hutch@ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au
    bruce@ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au

    Click for transcript of program "SEPO"


  3. Richard Gibbons
    E-GEMS (Electronic Games for Education in
    Mathematics and Science
    Computer Science Department
    2366 Main Mall
    Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 Canada
    Telephone Number: (604) 822-5108
    Fax Number: (604) 822-5485
    gibbons@cs.ubc.ca, phoenix@cs.ubc.ca

    Click for transcript of program "Julie"


  4. Robby Glen Garner
    robitron@Fringeware.COM
    robitron@worldnet.att.net
    http://www.fringeware.com/~robitron/

    Click for transcript of program "Barry Defacto"


  5. Robert E. Medeksza
    Erie, PA 16506
    RMedeksza@aol.com
    Glam1@mail1.gannon.edu

    Click for transcript of program "BOB OS"


The third and fourth place entries were tied based upon the median of the rank scores assigned by the judges. Tie breaking was based on the mean of the ranks.

The human confederate was recognized as human by all judges.

Click for transcript of human confederate


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Support

The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies and Dr. Loebner thank the following organizations for theirgracious support of the 1997 contest.

The communications program for interaction between judges and confederate was programmed by Don Fricault.

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