Bot Contest

Alice got the Loebner bronze this year. Haven't seen transcripts yet.

Meaning, of course, that she won (for those of you who still don't know the twisted logic of Hugh Loebner).

Does anybody know anything about the order of the other contestants?
I have tried to find out about Steven Watkins but he is a most mysterious and secretive guy, at least about his interest in chatbots. Almost certainly doesn't have a website about his bot.
John Precedo has a bot called Alex, and Rollo Carpenter is the botmaster of Jabberwacky, for those who don't know.

They (they being Hugh Loebner) said the transcripts will be posted no later than Thursday.

Aaaaaand it's Thursday. So here they are:
http://loebner.net/Prizef/2004_Contest/loebner-prize-2004.html

Oh! I thought you meant Thursday, Loebner time.

Uh, by my count, John Procedo won.

Yeah, but the interface for his confederates didn't work right so he was disqualified.

Ew. What, it didn't type the letters fast enough?

Or not slow enough...

Nope, their responses were garbled. He says he didn't mean to make it that way. Next year, Hugh Loebner plans to do the comm programs himself.

hi

Did anybody else have their bot chatted to by danvanmac today? I signed up for the chatterbox challenge yesterday and suddenly this person danvanmac creates an account today and chats up Aries. He spent 54 minutes on the site and I know he didn't chat with Aries that entire time. His questions were similar to some asked by judges at past chatterbox challenges...