Hugh Loebner, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Late President of Crown Industries
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Prostitution Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“I am a ‘john.’ I make no apology. In any rational universe the fact that I am able to have a sexual experience with a consenting adult only if I pay that adult would be nobody’s business but mine. Tragically, this is not the case. I am guilty of a crime and subject to arrest. So are those sex workers who tend to my needs.”
New York Times, Aug. 8, 1994
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- President and CEO, Crown Industries
- Founder and Sponsor, The Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence, 1990
- Inventor, 6 U.S. patents
- Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Member, New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)
- Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Award, COYOTE LA
- Aspasia Award, Meretrix Online, 1997
- Education:
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- PhD, Demography, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1972
- MA, Sociology, New York University, 1966
- BA, Liberal Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1963
- Other:
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- Died Dec. 4, 2016
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