The Turing Test

A fairly incomplete list of Web resources (most of them mirrored documents) related to the Turing Test and its "empirical counterpart", the Loebner Prize competition

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Loebner and the Loebner Prize

Loebner Prize Results

1991 transcripts (text file)
Julia matters (Julia is a famous chatterbot)

The complete 1995-96 documents

Online Papers

Lenny Foner's What's an Agent, Anyway? A Sociological Case Study by Lenny Foner (about Julia)
My Experience with the 1994 Loebner Competition by Thom Whalen (winner 1994)
How I Lost the Contest and Re-Evaluated Humanity by Thom Whalen (1995)
Alan Turing Scrapbook - Turing Test by Andrew Hodges
How my program passed the Turing Test by Mark Humphrys

Appendix: transcript of a dialog

Chatterbots, Tinymuds, And The Turing Test: Entering The Loebner Prize Competition by Michael L. Mauldin
What's It Mean to Be Human, Anyway? by Charles Platt
"The Ultimate Turing Test" by David Barberi
Minimum Intelligent Signal Test: An Alternative Turing Test by Chris McKinstry