Robby Glen Garner

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Awards and Professional Affiliations

• 2001 Guinness Book of World Records, "Most Human Computer Program."
• Wikipedia Biography Robby Garner
• 1999 Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence, Flinders University of South Australia.
• 1998 Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Australia.
• Roboticist for The BBC MegaLab '98 Turing Test, London England.
• Member of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. (ASCAP)
• Founder of TuringHub.com, the online Turing test.
• R. Neil Bishop Research Fellowship, IMS, 2001.

Experience

• Robitron Software Research, inc., Rockmart, Georgia, 1987-1999.
  
  Developed and maintained municipal accounting software for utilities billing, probate and magistrate courts.
  
  
  • President
  • Programmer / Analyst



• Flux Oersted, industrial synthpop band from Cedartown, Georgia, 1989-present. Synthetic music from the heart, a strange brand of synthpop with rock and industrial overtones.
  • Synthesist
  • iTunes
  • Soundclick.Com
  • Amazon.com
  • Vocalist
  • Engineer
  • Producer
  • Lyricist/Composer
  • Interview: Gary Numan



• HuMimics, Inc., Duluth, Georgia, 1999-2003.
  • Chief Science Officer
  • Project Manager:Web One, database driven AI application with NLP interface.
  • WEB One



• Flux Oersted Studios, Cedartown, Georgia, 2000-present.
  • Chat Bot Developer
  • JFRED Chat Server
  • Turing 100, Deception Rate: 20.83%, Mean score conversation ability: 35.05%
  • Bruce
  • Annie Dorsen's HELLO HI THERE
  • The Loebner Prize Contest
  • BBC Megalab World's largest Turing test
  • The Turing Hub
  • Northpole Elves
  • Writer
  • Podcasts
  • Fiction
  • The Intelligence of an Entity
  • Essays
  • Lyrics
  • Programmer
  • Games
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • EllaZ AI



• Robitron.com, Cedartown, Georgia 2000-present. Located in Flux Oersted Studios, robitron is dedicated to the imitation of human behavior in machines. Our members are multidisciplinary artists, scientists, engineers, and theorists. We believe that machine intelligence can be built one aspect at a time, rather than wait for some general theory or "singularity" to occur.
  • Loebner Contest 2002
  • Natural Language Programming Researcher
  • Interview: Eureka Idea Lab
  • Expect and Respond Language
  • Generation 5
  • Mentor, Auteur

Education

Human Cyborg Relations
Robby has pursued an independent course of study in classes that provided him with a liberal arts agenda and a computer science background of programming languages and related studies. Courses completed in The University System of Georgia.

Papers and Conferences

• Radio Shack Dealer's meeting, New Orleans, 1977, TRS-80 Model I introduction.
• Data Access Corporation, annual developer's conference, Miami, DocuFlex automated documentation system, 1988.
• Gary Numan Interview, FringeWare Review, Issue #13, 1997.
• International Symposium on Intelligent Systems, Reggio Calabria, Italy, Paper: FRED, Milton, and Barry: Evolution of Intelligent Agents on the Web, ACM Portal, 1997.
• SPE\COM'98, St. Petersburg, Russia, paper: The Tight Sponge Method, 1998.
• Member of Advisory Board for Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, 2000,
  • Measuring the performance and intelligence of systems, proceedings of the 2000 PerMIS Workshop, August 14-16, 2000.
  • The Intelligence of an Entity, R. Garner, S. Henderson, 2000.
  • NIST, NASA, IEEE, DARPA, Washington D.C., USA.
  • PerMIS 2004
• 2002 Loebner Prize Contest, Technical Director, Institute of Mimetic Sciences.
• 2003 Loebner Prize Contest, Steering Committee, Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.
• Colloquium on Conversational Systems, University of Surrey, Guildford, England, Multifaceted Conversational Systems, 2005.
• The Turing Hub as a Standard for Turing Test Interfaces, in Epstein, Robert and Peters, Grace, Eds. Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer, Springer, 2008.