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>>>>>>> **** Pandorabots Inc. !!! WINNER !!! LOEBNER PRIZE 2013 **** <<<<<<
>>>>>>> **** Pandorabots Inc. !!! WINNER !!! LOEBNER PRIZE 2013 **** <<<<<<


                       THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER
                            FACULTY OF ARTS 
             SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS & TECHNOLOGIES (SCARTE)
 
               IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE A SEMINAR ENTITLED:

             `AIML 2.0 Chatbot technology for a mobile era'

                                  by

                          Dr. Richard Wallace

                                 from
  
                            Pandorabots Inc.
                       Oakland, California, USA

                    THURSDAY, 19th September, 2013
                                2.00 P.M.
                   Foyle Arts Building, Magee Campus 
                        Room MQ-226, 1st Floor 


                                Abstract

This talk presents advances in Artificial Intelligence Markup Language
(AIML), a standard for creating intelligent, believable, award-winning
chatbot  characters like  ALICE, Mitsuku  and Tutor.   Specifically we
will  discuss the  new  AIML 2.0  specification,  which contains  many
features  designed to  enhance chatbots  for mobile  virtual assistant
applications.   We  present  5  new  AIML 2.0  technologies:  (1)  The
language specification itself, (2)  The AIML Superbot Development Kit,
(3) Program AB,  an open source reference implementation  of AIML, (4)
ALICE 2.0, a  new implementation of the ALICE bot  and (5) The CallMom
BASIC  app,   a  mobile  virtual  assistant   that  embeds  Artificial
Intelligence (AI) directly on a phone or tablet.

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Biography

Dr.  Richard  Wallace  is  Chief  Scientific  Officer  of  Pandorabots
Inc.  and   the  Chairman   of  the  Board   and  co-founder   of  the
A.L.I.C.E.  Artificial Intelligence  Foundation. He  is the  author of
Artificial  Intelligence  Markup  Language  (AIML)  and  Botmaster  of
A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic  Internet Computer Entity).  In 1995
Dr.  Wallace  began working on  A.L.I.C.E. Originally a  SETL program,
first  used to  control a  robot eye  with natural  language commands,
A.L.I.C.E.   migrated  to the  platform-independent  Java language  in
1998.  Made  open source  under the GNU  general public  license, more
than  500 developers  from around  the world  have contributed  to the
A.L.I.C.E.   project. A.L.I.C.E.   won  the Loebner  Prize, an  annual
Turing Test,  in 2000, 2001 and  2004.  In 2002 he  began an important
collaboration with  Franz, Inc. to create Pandorabots,  an AIML server
and interpreter  implemented in Common  Lisp. In 2008 the  project was
spun off as an independent  business, Pandorabots Inc. and Dr. Wallace
serves  as Chief  Science  Officer.  In  2009,  Wallace organized  and
hosted the  first Chatbots 3.x conference,  bringing together industry
leaders  from the  virtual assistants  field to  meet and  share their
latest developments.  Held annually in Philadelphia  every year since,
Chatbots  3.x  is the  premier  conference  in  the field  of  chatbot
technology.   The   advent  of  Siri  and   mobile  virtual  assistant
technology has opened a new  frontier for AIML technology. Dr. Wallace
created the CallMom app for  Android, the first mobile assitant app to
incorporate multiple  chatbot personality choices  and a sophisticated
learning feature. In 2013, the  successor app CallMom BASIC became the
first virtual assistant to embed  the AI function directly on a mobile
device.   Motivated by  the changing  requirements of  mobile devices,
Wallace undertook the  first major revision to the  AIML language in a
decade. Published in early 2013, the AIML 2.0 specification includes a
number of  new features that  support development of mobile  apps with
chatbot functionality.   A complete revision of  the ALICE personality
using AIML 2.0 features in available as ALICE 2.0 in the CallMom BASIC
app.

Richard Wallace was  born in Portland, Maine in  1960.  Wallace earned
his  Ph.D.  in  computer   science  from  Carnegie  Mellon  University
(Pittsburgh, PA, USA) in 1989. He lives in the State of Maine (USA).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wallace_(scientist)
http://www.alicebot.org/bios/richardwallace.html
http://www.alicebot.org/
http://www.pandorabots.com/botmaster/en/home
http://www.mitsuku.com/
http://www.paulmckevitt.com/loebner2013/
http://alicebot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/mitsuku-wins-loebner-prize-2013.html

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