Loebner Prize

Contest developed by Hugh Loebner and The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, the Loebner Prize is the first implementation of the Turing Test that awards a Grand Prize of $100000 USD and a Gold Medal for the first computer whose responses were indistinguishable from a human's. Each year an annual prize of $2000 and bronze medal is awarded for most human computer.

Also see: Artificial Intelligence, Chatterbox challenge, Turing Test