[Freddy]

Third Colloquium on Conversational Systems

Chatbots 3.0

• Who: Bot creators, commercial users, enthusiasts, scientists, students, and the press are invited.
• What: Chatbots 3.0 Conference
• When: Saturday, March 27, 2010
• Where: Suite 3200 (32nd Floor) Liberty Place, 50 S. 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
• Why:  Chatbots have been adapted to nearly every ecological niche on the internet. Bots appear on web pages, in instant messaging, and respond to email and forum posts. They can be found in Second Life, in online games, and in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.   Bots support marketing and advertising and are used in education.  This conference brings together leading experts to discuss their ideas and present the latest technologies and trends in chatbots.

Speakers

Technology

• Rollo Carpernter, ICogno and Existor, Learning, Creating, Phrasing
• Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Nanosemantics, User-generated Chatbots
• Robert Lockhart, Wolfram|Alpha, Integrating Semantics and Empirical Language Data.
• Robert Medeksza, Zabaware, Ultra Hal AI technology, character animation,
  and bots in Second Life
• Vladimir Veselov, PrincetonAI, Eugene Goostman the Bot
• Dr. Richard Wallace, Pandorabots, Unsupervised Learning for AIML Bots
• John Zakos, MyCyberTwin, MyCyberTwin, How Chatbots Outperform Humans in Enterprise Applications

Business

• Erwin van Lun, Chatbots.org, Chat bot industry overview
• Adeena Mignogna, RIOTSW, Before you quit your day job...
• Francis Taney, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PCT, Legal and I.P. issues

Academic

• Prof. Mark Chavez, NTU Singapore, Chat-able characters in Cinematics and Narratives
• Amanda Windle, University for the Creative Arts, Epsom, The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Chatbot Entrapment
• Tom Joyce, TBD, Open Source Chatbot Technology

Register at http://chatbots3.eventbrite.com

[Freddy]

Dr Richard Wallace has put some videos of the conference up on YouTube.

This includes presentations from Robert Medeksza of Zabaware, Erwin Van Lun (Chatbots.org) and Dr Wallace himself.

Here's a list of all the videos uploaded so far :

Click here...