virtual watering hole for Loebner Prize contest participants and discussion of related topics. Current works After winning the contest twice, Garner and Nathan went on to create chat bots for the BBC's show Tomorrow's World, and Megalab for the world's largest Turing test. Viewers of the show rated one bot as 17% human. The multifaceted approach, presented at a colloquium on conversational systems in November 2005, involves multiple chat bots working under the control of a master control program. Using this technique, the strengths of various web agents may be united under the control of a Java applet or servlet. The control program categorizes stimuli and delegates responses to other programs in a hierarchy. A spin-off of this technique is the Turing Hub, Garner's current work focuses on text-only communications and the use of film theory to facilitate story telling, and identification of emotions in human beings. By reducing extraneous channels of information, in text there is enough information to build an empirical measure of semantic fidelity in human-computer communications. See also References External links JFred Chatterbots at SimonLaven.com The Turing Hub at FluxOersted.com 1963 births Living people American computer programmers American computer scientists Artificial intelligence researchers Computational linguistics researchers Natural language processing People from Cedartown, Georgia