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Professor Paul Mc Kevitt (Chair in Digital MultiMedia)
Professor Paul Mc Kevitt in ″The Irish Room″, Library, Ulster University, Magee College, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland on October 15th, 2010
Born	Paul Pio Gerard Mc Kevitt (1964-01-09) 9 January 1964 (age 61) Monaghan, Ireland
Nationality	Ireland
Alma mater	University of Sheffield University of Exeter New Mexico State University University College Dublin
Known for	Natural language processing multimodal interaction Artificial Intelligence Computer games Music technology Steganography
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Awards	NISP 25K Awards, Hi-Tech category award (2009) EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (1994-1999) New Mexico State University Centennial Researcher Award (1988) New Mexico Legislature Research Fellowship (1986-1988)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Scientist
Institutions	Ulster University QUB Aalborg University LIMSI (CNRS), University of Paris-Sud University of Sheffield Dublin City University University of Exeter New Mexico State University University College Dublin
Doctoral students	Dr. Karla Munoz Prof. Minhua (Eunice) Ma Dr. Abbas Cheddad Dr. Jonathan Doherty Dr. Eoghan Furey Dr. Tony Solon Dr. Glenn Campbell
Website	www.paulmckevitt.com

Professor Paul Mc Kevitt is a Monaghan-born Irish computer scientist. He is Professor of Digital MultiMedia (Chair in Digital MultiMedia) at Ulster University, Magee College, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK since December, 2000. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Mc Kevitt directed the 23rd International Loebner Prize Contest in Artificial Intelligence, held for the first time on the island of Ireland, on September 14, 2013 at Ulster University, Magee College, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK with Producer, Dr. Hugh Loebner. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]} The bronze medal and annual prize for best performing chatbot 2013 was $6,000. The $100,000 Grand Prize and solid gold medal for a chatbot which can fool all four judges that it is human still remains intact. Judges were Professor Noel Sharkey (University of Sheffield), Professor Roger Schank (Socratic Arts), Professor Mike McTear (Ulster University) and Professor Minhua (Eunice) Ma (University of Huddersfield).

He directed (with Professor Fionn Murtagh (now University of Derby) & Dr. Jon Campbell (R.I.P.), the 8th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS-97), Ulster University, Magee, hosting keynote speaker Professor John McCarthy (computer scientist) (Stanford University) (R.I.P.), who first named the field Artificial Intelligence at the Dartmouth Conference in 1956. ^{[13] [14]}

He directed the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB-95) (April 3–7, 1995) and co-chaired (with Sean O Nuallain), ″Reaching for Mind --Workshop on the Foundations of Cognitive Science″ (April 3/4, 1995),^[15] at University of Sheffield, England.

Mc Kevitt presented the encomium for Professor Noel Sharkey at Ulster University at Coleraine on July 3rd, 2006, on the occasion of the award of his D.Sc. (Doctor of Science) Honorary degree in recognition of his distinction as a computer scientist and his promotion of the popular understanding of science. ^{[16] [17]}

He coordinated the visit of international singer and songwriter, Enya, to Ulster University, Magee Campus on July 10th, 2007, where she visited the Schools of Creative Arts & Technologies and Computing on the occasion of the award of her D.Litt. (Doctor of Letters) Honorary degree in recognition of her contributions to music and the creative industries. ^{[18] [19]}