CS's Phoenix Connection has slapped up an interview with the creator of the NNBot. Here's a tidbit:
Do that click thang!Rexxie> Why did you decide to make the NNBot?
Ditlew> I wanted to play with AI, since I've done some work with neural networks. I never thought of the possibility of
making a CS-bot before DaTa released his bot. After that I offered both DaTa and Botman, to help them with their
AI, but I never got a reply, so I started making my own HL-bot based on Botman's botcode. Later came the NNBot-CS bot.