A is for Agent, B is for Bot.
  What's a Bot?
  Let's check the definition in the Webopedia ...
  BotSpotĘ Bot Descriptions
  BotSpot Categories
  ChatterBots

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) web page -- A public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society. Scroll down to see the FAQ on Filters and Filtering, Privacy and Your Social Security Number, and Data Privacy and P3P.

HAL 9000
  Underman's 2001 THE HAL TRANSCRIPTS. Read some of Hal's conversations with Dave and others.
  David Stork (Ed.) and MIT Press: HAL's Legacy.

The Loebner Prize--"The First Turing Test"
  The Turing Test
  Home Page of The Loebner Prize
  Richard Wallace's Alice wins Loebner 2000 Prize

ACM
Crossroads Student Magazine
  Where do Intelligent Agents Come From?
      by Cristobal Baray and Kyle Wagner (v5.4 Summer 1999).
  Emotionware by Lynellen D.S. Perry (v3.1 Fall 1996).

American Association for Artificial Intelligence
  Agents
  AI in the news
  AI Topics
  Natural Language
  The Turing Test

IEEE
  History of Computing
  Timeline (HTML)
  Careers

MIT
  Media Lab -- Software Agents group
  Artificial Intelligence Laboratory