BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY SPECIALIST GROUP ON
KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS AND APPLIED ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE (BCS-SGES)
First Annual BCS Prize for Progress Towards MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
Organisers: Prof. Max Bramer (for SGES) & Dr. John L. Gordon (for
AKRI)
Prize: A permanent trophy awarded for one year plus a cash prize.
Format: The prize will be awarded on the basis of a 10-15 minute live
demonstration (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). The prize will be awarded to the demonstration that in the
opinion of the judges best demonstrates 'progress towards an
intelligent machine'.
Venue: The competition will be held at Peterhouse College, Cambridge
on Tuesday December 11th 2001 during the annual SGES conference on
Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence (ES2001).
Judges: All registered delegates at ES2001 will be eligible to vote in
a secret ballot. The competitor receiving most votes will be the
winner.
Eligibility: The competition is open to all. A maximum of 8 entries
will be presented. To control numbers, these will be selected by the
organisers on the basis of information provided by the entrants.
Entry Fee: There is no entry fee but competitors will be asked to meet
their own costs.
This competition will put on show, real systems working in real time.
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.
Further Information is available on the ES2001 website at
http://www.bcs-sges.org/es2001
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