Programmer wins £1,000 for most human creation
18 September 2006
Joan is just a few years old and very talkative - and now she is officially the world's most human computer program.
Judges at UCL held typed "conversations" with challengers as part of the quest for the unclaimed £50,000 Turing prize, reserved for the first program to fool judges into thinking it is a real person.
Bobbie Johnson, 'The Guardian'