Eugene Goostman is a computer programme, an Artificial Conversational Entity (ACE). It was runner up in the 2001 (tied) , 2005 and 2008 Loebner Prize

Loebner prize

The Loebner Prize is an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to the chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The format of the competition is that of a standard Turing test. In each round, a human judge simultaneously holds textual conversations...

for Artificial Intelligence.

The programme and knowledge base were developed in Saint Petersburg, Russia by a team which includes Vladimir Veselov (Russian origin, living in US), Eugene Demchenko (Ukraine origin, living in Russia), and Sergey Ulasen (based in Saint Petersburg, Russia).

Vladimir Veselov graduated from Mozhaisky Military Space Engineering Institute, in St. Petersburg, Russia. He is a specialist in artificial intelligence, automated control systems for space vehicles, statistics, and chemometrics. Currently a Staff Scientist at Johnson and Johnson, USA.

Eugene Demchenko graduated from St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University in Microelectronics and solid state physics. He is a specialist in Artificial Intelligence.

Sergey Ulasen, a software developer, graduated from Mozhaisky Military Space Engineering Institute, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Sergey is a specialist in artificial intelligence, space communications and information systems.

During the preliminary phase of the 2008 Loebner competition, Eugene was considered "the best program" by one of the judges. They wrote:

"You could ask it the following: "My car is red. What color is my car?" It gave the correct answer of "Red" whereas all but two other programs either couldn't comprehend the question (or that there was a question) or just took a random guess."