Peggy Weil
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Peggy Weil is an artist working in digital media.
She graduated from Harvard in 1976 and received a Masters Degree from MIT in 1982. There she was a part of the Architecture Machine Group where she worked under Nicholas Negroponte
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In 1990, she produced A Silly Noise House, an award-winning CD-ROM with multimedia pioneer The Voyager Company. Her multimedia works continued with Ravensburger Interactive, where her Moving Puzzle CD-ROMs won the 1998 Milia D'Or in Cannes
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She created MrMind, a web-based bot who asks, "Can you convince me that you are human?" MrMind has been administering The Blurring Test, a Reverse Turing test
, since 1998.
Currently she is a Visiting Asst. Professor at the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division
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She graduated from Harvard in 1976 and received a Masters Degree from MIT in 1982. There she was a part of the Architecture Machine Group where she worked under Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte is an American architect best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association ....
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In 1990, she produced A Silly Noise House, an award-winning CD-ROM with multimedia pioneer The Voyager Company. Her multimedia works continued with Ravensburger Interactive, where her Moving Puzzle CD-ROMs won the 1998 Milia D'Or in Cannes
Cannes
Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
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She created MrMind, a web-based bot who asks, "Can you convince me that you are human?" MrMind has been administering The Blurring Test, a Reverse Turing test
Reverse Turing test
The term reverse Turing test has no single clear definition, but has been used to describe various situations based on the Turing test in which the objective and/or one or more of the roles have been reversed between computers and humans....
, since 1998.
Currently she is a Visiting Asst. Professor at the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division
USC Interactive Media Division
The University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts's Interactive Media Division first accepted students in 2002. In addition to coursework in film production, screenwriting, and animation, students in the division study across three disciplines within interactive media: immersive...
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