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Daniel C. Dennett is distinguished arts and sciences professor, professor of philosophy, and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. A graduate of Harvard University and Oxford University, he has taught at the University of California at Irvine, University of Pittsburgh, Oxford University, and the Ecole Normale Supérieur in Paris. He is a leading philosopher of mind, and author of over a hundred scholarly articles and books, such as Content and Consciousness, Brainstorms, Elbow Room, The Intentional Stance, Consciousness Explained, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and Kinds of Minds. He is the co-editor of The Mind's I. As chair of the Loebner Prize Committee, he presided over the first three annual competitions in which a restricted Turing test was conducted: AI programs competed for the "most human" award by engaging in conversations with human judges. He has been an adviser on exhibits at the Computer Museum and the Museum of Science in Boston and is currently resident philosopher on the Cog Project at MIT's AI Lab.