This is a free event held as the final part of Real AI 2016.

After a three-year gap it is with great pleasure that SGAI relaunches the BCS Machine Intelligence Competition, as part of the Group's one-day event Real AI 2016.

The eleventh BCS Machine Intelligence competition for live demonstrations of applications that show 'progress towards machine intelligence' will be held on Friday October 7th 2016 at the BCS London Office, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London. The winner will receive a cash prize plus a trophy.

The prize will be awarded on the basis of a 10-15 minute live demonstration of each system (not a paper, not a technical description). 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).

Full details of the competition are available on the website.

Attendance at the competition is included in the registration fee for Real AI 2016 (http://www.bcs-sgai.org/realai2016/). All those attending will be eligible to vote for the winning entry.

Those who prefer to attend only the BCS Machine Intelligence Competition may do so free of charge. It will begin shortly after 4 p.m. at the BCS London office and will end by 6 p.m. at the latest. To ensure entrance to the building it is essential to give advance notice of attendance. You can do this by email to [log in to unmask]  up to the start of the competition.--