Dr. Richard S. Wallace is the Chairman of the Board and co-founder of the A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation. He is the author of Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML) and Botmaster of A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity). Dr. Wallace's work and life has been featured in Salon, L. A. Weekly, Slashdot, The New York Times Magazine, WIRED, Scientific American, USA Today, Nature, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Guardian, the Financial Times, New York Post, Premiere and Entertainment Weekly, and on ABC, BBC, CNN, CNET, TechTV, and ZDNet, in feature films, and in numerous foreign language publications across Asia, Latin America and Europe.

In 1995 Dr. Wallace began working on A.L.I.C.E. Originally a SETL program, first used to control a robot eye with natural language commands, A.L.I.C.E. migrated to the platform-independent Java language in 1998. Made open source under the GNU general public license, more than 500 developers from around the world have contributed to the A.L.I.C.E. project. A.L.I.C.E. won the Loebner Prize, an annual Turing Test, in 2000, 2001 and 2004.

Richard Wallace was born in Portland, Maine in 1960. Wallace earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon in 1989. He lives in San Francisco, California.

email: drwallace@alicebot.org