[alicebot-archcomm] Annual Board Meeting

[Dr. Richard S. Wallace]

ALICE A.I. Foundation, Inc.

Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees

San Francisco, CA

August 16, 2002


The ALICE A.I. Foundation, Inc. held its annual Board of Trustees meeting in
San Francisco today.  The only 2001-02 Board member present was the
Chairman, Dr. Richard S. Wallace.  The first order of business was the
election of a new Board of Trustees.  The A.I. Foundation has set the number
of Board seats to three, and is pleased to announce the election of Dr.
Richard S. Wallace, Chairman, along with Elizabeth Hutchinson, and Dr. David
Bacon, for a term of one year.

We would like to thank the outgoing Board members for their service.

The Board of Trustees for 2002-03 are:

1. Dr. Richard S. Wallace, Chairman
drwallace@alicebot.org

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 has appeared in the
New York Times, Financial Times, London Guardian, New York Post, WIRED,
Premiere and Entertainment Weekly, on CNN, ZDTV, TechTV, and in numerous
foreign language publications across Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Richard Wallace is an activist for mental health patients' rights and drug
legalization.  He was diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder in 1992, and
became functionally disabled in 1999.  For his activism, he was banned from
the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in June, 2002.

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 300 developers from around
the world now contribute to the A.L.I.C.E. project. A.L.I.C.E. won the
Loebner Prize, an annual Turing Test, in 2000 and 2001.

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 with his wife, Kim, and son, Linus.



2. Elizabeth Hutchinson
pianomovers@msn.com

Elizabeth Hutchinson was born in New York City and educated  in private
schools.  She speaks French and Italian, and studied Latin for three years
but wished she'd been learning Greek instead.  She entered Harvard in 1979
at seventeen, and graduated cum laude in History and Literature in 1983. Her
fields of concentration were France and America, so she learned a fair
amount of the history of both those countries in the process of getting her
degree.  She spent a term at Universite Laval in Quebec City.  There she
fell in with the usual filmmaking crowd, and wrote a paper about Godard that
so incensed the professor he gave her a C.  She says, "Oh well, I never
wanted to go to graduate school anyway."  Since then Elizabeth has worked a
waitress, preschool teacher,  counselor for boys with behavioral problems,
wife, mother and teacher of standardized tests.  But more importantly she
has remained a lover of words and language. She has four childen, all of
whom have homeschooled at one time or another, some of whom still or will
forever do.
Elizabeth owns a small moving business with her husband Tom in Oakland,
California.

3. Dr. David Bacon
bacon@cs.nyu.edu

Dr. David Bacon is the keeper of SETL, "the world's most wonderful
programming language."  He says, "I never meant to devote my life to it, but
someone has to be its keeper, so I've appointed myself."
He lives in Steeltown, id est Bethlehem, PA, which has a neon star over it
that lights up at night that you can see as you drive south across the hwy
378 bridge over the Lehigh River. This is America. In fact, this is
Pennsylvania. Don't laugh, this Bethlehem has its own Manger Square and
brings in many tourist $$$ every Advent. They should spend it on the poor;
there is much poverty in this rich country, and 16 per cent of the people
still have no health insurance. The silly thing is, it costs much more to
take care of them after they get sick. An ounce of prevention...oh, never
mind.
David Bacon is probably the most active member (in terms of actual flying)
of the Water Gap Hang Gliding Club, and has recently undertaken to create
and maintain a web site for it.
David Bacon has been closely involved with ALICE and AIML since its
inception in 1995.  He supported the first versions of ALICE running on the
SETL engine, and helped write the first implementations of the Graphmaster
algorithm, which he called Chomsky Trees.

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The second order of business was the appointment of a new CEO.  We recognize
and thank Kim Wallace for her wonderful commitment and voluntary service to
the Foundation serving as its first CEO.  She has graciously agreed to step
aside while we turn the helm over to a man with more professional experience
directing small organizations like ours, Mr. Russell Kyle.

Russell Kyle, CEO of ALICE AI Foundation, Inc.
sfcrimetours@directvinternet.com

Russell Kyle was born in Los Angeles, California in 1953.  He is an
entrepreneur and small businessman based in San Francisco.  Russell
graduated from UCLA with a degree in Theater Arts and Polical Science in
1975.  He worked for 11 years as a Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems,
Inc.  Russell maintains a Sun Sparc Ultra workstation and provides his own
systems administration.

Russell is President and CEO of Russell's SF True Crime Tours, Inc., a
tourist business specializing in historic tours of San Francisco's famous
crime scenes from the Barbary Coast to the Vigilante Committee to the Dog
Mauling Trial.  He provides employment opportunities for the disabled,
mentally ill, and workers with no other marketable skills.


Finally, Dr. Wallace presented the Board with a brief budget summary of
activity for 2001-02, which was approved, and the meeting adjourned.