The Seventh British Computer Society Machine Intelligence
Competition - FINAL CALL
Wednesday December 10th 2008 at Peterhouse College,
Cambridge, UK, during the annual SGAI conference AI-2008
Closing Date for Entries: October 1st 2008
This is the seventh in an annual series of competitions for live
demonstrations of 'Progress Towards Machine Intelligence' organized
by the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial
Intelligence (SGAI) in association with AKRI Ltd.
The demonstration can be of either software (e.g. a question-
answering system or a speech recognition system) or hardware
(e.g. a mobile robot).
This competition will put on show real systems demonstrated
live. It is hoped that the competition and the competitors, over
several years, will provide a new interest and visible improvements
in the development of machine intelligence.
Entry Fee: There is no entry fee and conference registration is not
required.
Prize: A permanent trophy awarded for one year plus a £1,000
cash prize.
Format: The prize will be awarded on the basis of a 10-15
minute live demonstration (not a paper or a technical
description). The prize will be awarded to the demonstration that in
the opinion of the judges best demonstrates 'progress towards an
intelligent machine'.
Judges: All registered delegates at the conference will be eligible to
vote in a secret ballot.
Eligibility: The competition is open to all. A maximum of 5
entries will be presented. To control numbers, these will be
selected by the organizers on the basis of information provided by
the entrants.
Further information is available at
http://www.bcs-sgai.org/micomp/
or by email from the organizers
Prof. Max Bramer (Chairman, SGAI) [log in to unmask]
Richard Ellis [log in to unmask]
and Dr. John Gordon (Director, AKRI) [log in to unmask]
The AI-2008 conference website is at
http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2008/.
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