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Chatbots.org launches the largest specialized research area on humanlike conversational artificial intelligence in its new 2.7 release on http://www.chatbots.org/research.

We have worked on it for over 18 months, and we are very excited to present the result today: 1,031 academic journals, more than 13,000 universities, 163 books, 327 annual academic events, 475 publishers and loads of academic papers. And the best is: from a content point of view, this is just the start! This area is expected to grow very fast.

We believe that the academic community will benefit greatly from this area. They will get in touch with businesses to set up commercially funded projects, attract talent by profiling themselves in our new university ranking and align themselves with innovative entrepreneurs.

This article will demonstrate what to expect from our new research section; how it all fits into the Chatbots.org scope and where it is heading to.

After almost seven months of hard work, we are proud to present version 2.6 of Chatbots.org. This version features multiple forums, a sophisticated account mechanism, and a sleek design of sub navigation, body, and footer.

Did you ever search for an overview of chatbot/virtual agent developers? Most likely, it was very hard to find. Well, we are happy to announce that from now on, life will be easier!

Chatbots.org has identified 49 professional chatbot developers all over the world. Most of them develop automated chat systems for virtual agents in call centers, however many developers are also developing chatbots for entertainment, learning, or companionship. Below, you will find a summary of our initial results in alphabetical order.

This page is a snapshot of our database listing Nov 18th 2009, our dynamic directory of professional chatbot/ virtual developers is maintained continuously and contains hyperlinks to developers’ websites.

AI4US Ltd. is from now on legal person for Chatbots.org. Its name AI4US is an acronym of ‘Artificial Intelligence for us’, its mission is to support the use of Artificial Intelligence in people’s daily lives.

It’s registered at the English Company House,  Company No. 7045061. All shares are owned by Lun Holding Ltd. (registered Company No. 7051180), which is fully owned by Dutch futurist Erwin Van Lun (that’s me ; - )).

Reasons to choose an Ltd. instead of the Dutch equivalent ‘BV’ (Besloten Vennootschap) is its international appeal, a legal worldwide known entity, and recognition as a legal person in all EU member states (directive 68/151/EEC of the Council of the European Communities).

How to model natural full-body conversations between humans and chatbots, agents or humanoids? What elements are important from the very first moment a conversation seems to start until a real almost intimate relationship has been built (or it’s time to say goodbye)?

At Chatbots.org, we’re extremely interested in these elements as we’re trying to structure current and future parts of this website based on those elements. Therefore, we’ve worked quite extentisvely on this model althought it’s still a draft. Read the 9 main stages below, download the full PDF(Human Agent Model Elements) and you’re invited to leave your comments and suggestions!

Three months after release 2.0, we are very proud to present version 2.5 of Chatbots.org.

Version 2.5 features all chatbots and/ or related AI awards, a special ‘feature profiles’ section highlighting everyone who has willingly shared their AI knowledge and a brand new design of the Chatbots.org header, including animated favicon and cute Twitter animation. In addition, the speed of the website has considerably increased.

Do you enjoy digging around the Internet spotting just those academic in-depth articles who nobody ever seems to discover, AI pearls who deserve more attention? Can you think outside of the box? Do you have proven experience as a creative writer attracting different kinds of people? Act now!

Do you love AI and SF books? That’s great! We’ve just started to build our library, so we could be of assistance to each other! We’ll need objective book summaries and subjective book reviews of great AI and SF books (and even movies).

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve appointed Jetty Van Kooij as our primary editor of Chatbots.org.

As you probably know, the Turing Test is a proposal for a test of a machine’s ability to demonstrate intelligence. The test celebrates its 100th birthday in 2012.

The most prestigious prize based on the Turing test, is obviously the Loebner Prize, started in 1990 by Hugh Loebner (who’s still passionate about chatbots).

The Loebner Prize however, is not the only prize in this area. There seem to be a few more prizes to win in the field of creating artificial intelligent and conversational life. For Chatbots.org we’re trying to create a list of all of them (and to list all the results on the site).