Included in the Judges is Russ Abbott, Professor of Computer Science, California State University, Los Angeles.
This year there are three contestants:
Rollo Carpenter
Robert Medeksza
Noah Duncan
All three competed in Loebner 2006, results from that Prize are here:
http://loebner.net/Prizef/2006_Contest/loebner-prize-2006.html
Further news on this, and the venue for Loebner 2008, will be included later.