Growing Need For "big Data" Analysis Spurs Growth In Kdd Conference

More than 1,100 experts who analyze "Big Data" are gathered in San Diego today for the industry's major conference on "Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining" (KDD). The registered attendance is a 22 percent increase over the 900 who attended last year's KDD conference in Washington D.C.

Growing Need for "Big Data" Analysis Spurs Growth in KDD Conference

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Chatbots 3.1 Conference Report

The Chatbots 3.1 conference held in Philadelphia on April 23 was a huge success.  We had 20 attendees and 10 extremely high quality presentations.  The presentations covered commercial applications of chatbots, new algorithms and research topics, automated detection of chat bots, legal and IP issues for botmasters, and the future of AI and society.





Although the attendance was relatively small this year (perhaps due to higher airfares) the size of the conference lends itself to personal contact between major players in the chatbot field, as well as the opportunity to ask direct questions.  We are especially grateful to Frank Taney, our host, since he provided legal advice that we cannot easily access.  He gave us some great information about what approaches we may or may not be able to consider in developing bots. 

We will be adding links to this list of presentations as they become available:

• David Newyear - Mentor Public Library - The Cat who sat down at the Reference Desk
• Robert Medeksza - Zabaware - Ultra HAL Technology in Social Networks
• Francis Taney - Buchanan Ingersoll - Legal and IP Issues for Botmasters
• Dr. Richard Wallace - Pandorabots - Unsupervised Learning for AIML Bots
• Charles Wooters, Ph.D - NextIT - Next IT Human Emulation Technology
• Dr. Hugh Loebner - Crown Industries  - A.I. and The Future of Society
• John McIntire - Warfighter Interface Division, 711th Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory -  Spotting a bot: Active and passive methods of chatbot detection
• John Zakos - MyCyberTwin - The Role of Chat Bots in Social Media
• Adeena Mignogna - Riot Software - AIML Content Management
• Jeff Remy - VirtuOz - Improving Virtual Agent Performance 

The entire conference was video taped and we will be posting videos of the talks to Youtube once the final editing is completed.  In addition an independent filmmaker Miranda Yousef hired a local Philadelphia cinematographer to film the conference and interview attendees.   She is a making a film about chatbots and the Loebner prize. Look for more information about this exciting upcoming film project.





The conference was reported in the Philadelphia Business Journal.

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Chatbots 3.1 Conference Report

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Chatbots 3.1 Conference - April 23, 2011

FOURTH COLLOQUIUM ON CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS


Chatbots 3.1



Who: Bot creators, commercial users, enthusiasts, scientists, students, and the press are invited.



What: Chatbots 3.1 Conference



When: Saturday, April 23, 2011



Where: Suite 3200 (32nd Floor) Two Liberty Place, 50 S. 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102



Why: Based on the success of and interest in last year's Chatbots 3.0 conference, we have organized a follow-up Chatbots conference in the same location in Philadelphia. We have assembled an impressive group of speakers covering a range of topics including chat bot technology, business, legal issues and applications. Chatbots 3.x has established a reputation for providing the highest quality presentations among all conferences in our industry. Come to the Chatbots 3.1 conference to meet the top experts in our community. Interact, ask questions, and join us for an informative day reviewing the latest developments in chat bot technology.



More info and Registration: http://chatbots31.eventbrite.com

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Chatbots 3.1 Conference - April 23, 2011

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