By convincing one-third of the judging panel of its humanity, it became the computer ever to pass the famous Turing Test. The Turing Test is a controversial test invented by Alan Turing in 1950. At the University of Reading, the test was a five-minute keyboard conversation with someone or something on the other side. Saturdays computer, who acted as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy named Eugene Goostman, made the cut.