Hi, I wrote a blog post on the history of the Turing test for a website that is organized by students in my old department (the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology), addressing the recent claims that a computer Eugene Goostman had passed the Turing test. It is my own limited perspective on a limited issue and history of AI is not my usual beat, but I hope it is of some interest. http://thebubblechamber.org/2014/06/can-machines-think-yet-a-brief-history-o... -- Yours Truly, Allan Olley, PhD http://individual.utoronto.ca/fofound/