Robby Garner

Current

• Editor and Composer at Cyber Mecha Studios
• Programmer at Robitron

Past

• Project Manager at TASC
• Competitor and Winner at Loebner Prize Contest
• Staff Roboticist at FRINGE WARE REVIEW

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Education

• Kennesaw State University
• University of West Georgia
• The University of Georgia

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Recommended

5 people have recommended Robby

Connections

34 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Robby Garner’s Summary

With 20 years experience in software development for probate, magistrate, and traffic courts, also have experience developing software for utilities billing and a variety of inventory control and accounts receivable systems. Provided technical support, remote systems administration, and consulting.

Contracted to produce conversational software applications for a variety of companies, including the BBC, northpole.com, and for research in human-computer communications.

Personal record label has produced 3 albums under the name Flux Oersted, available at iTunes and amazon.com

Actively working on future musical projects and remain available for conversational software consulting.

Robby Garner’s Specialties:

Natural language interfaces and human mimetic research, broad experience in migration projects, electronic music composition and recording. Creative Writing

Robby Garner’s Experience

• Editor and Composer

  Cyber Mecha Studios

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 1999 — Present (9 years 11 months)

  Software Developer, Media / Content creator.

• Programmer

  Robitron

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 1987 — Present (22 years 1 month)

  Software developer for a variety of retail and municipal applications. Wrote multi-user database applications used in probate and magistrate courts, as well as utilities billling and encumberance accounting.

• Project Manager

  TASC

  (Public Company; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 1999 — February 2003 (3 years 4 months)

  Built database driven AI application.

• Competitor and Winner

  Loebner Prize Contest

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 1994 — October 1999 (5 years 5 months)

  Competed in 6 Loebner Prize Contests. Winner in 1998 and 1999. Technical director in 2002. Member of steering committee in 2003.

• Staff Roboticist

  FRINGE WARE REVIEW

  (Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 1999 (4 years)

  Worked with chat robot team to develop interactive artificial personalities.

Additional Information

Robby Garner’s Websites:

• My Website

Robby Garner’s Interests:

Synthesizer music of the 1970's, music seqencing and recording, Artful Intelligence, film, cats

Robby Garner’s Groups:

American Society of Composers Authors and Musicians, Robitron Discussion Group

•    Visual DataFlex
•    S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

Robby Garner’s Honors:

Winner of Loebner Prize in Artificial Intelligence for 1998 and 1999.
2001 Guinness Book of World Records - "Most Human Computer Program"