Robby Glen Garner

Awards and Professional Affiliations

• 2001 Guinness Book of World Records, "Most Human Computer Program."
• 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.
• Ordained minister of the Universal Life Church.

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.
  • Synthesist
  • Vocalist
  • Engineer
  • Producer
  • Lyricist/Composer



• CyberMecha Studios, Cedartown, Georgia, 2000-present.
  • Chat Bot Developer
  • Proprietor
  • Software Editor



• Institute of Mimetic Sciences, inc., Cedartown, Georgia 2000-present.
  • Natural Language Programming Researcher
  • Chief Science Officer

Education

Human Cyborg Relations
Institute of Mimetic Sciences, MMX.
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.
• 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,
  • 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.