Richard S. Wallace is an American author of
AIML and Botmaster of
A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity).
[
] He is also the founder of the A.L.I.C.E Artificial Intelligence Foundation. Dr. Wallace's work has appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, CNN, ZDTV and in numerous foreign language publications across Asia, Latin America and Europe.
Wallace began work on A.L.I.C.E. in 1995, and the project has gained contributions from over 500 developers from around the world.
A.L.I.C.E. won the
Loebner Prize
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in 2000, 2001, and 2004. In 2002, Wallace began a collaboration with Franz, Inc. which resulted in
Pandorabots, an AIML server and interpreter implemented in Common Lisp.
Wallace then became the Chief Science Officer of Pandorabots, Inc.
Richard Wallace was born in
Portland, Maine
Portland is the List of municipalities in Maine, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat, seat of Cumberland County, Maine, Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 at the 2020 census. The Portland metropolit ...
in 1960. He earned his
Ph.D. in
computer science
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from
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...
in 1989.
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1960 births
Living people
American artificial intelligence researchers
American computer programmers
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
American computer scientists
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