The Genealogy of ELIZA

Adam Gordon Bell who creates the CoRecursive Podcast recently interviewed Jeff Shrager (founder of ElizaGen.org) about the discovery of the ELIZA code. He did a great job of turning what started out as two hours of making our work fascinating and mysterious!

Click here to go to the page describing the original ELIZA

Latest News

20230210: Two New (well, old) ELIZAs Added to the Repo 

Team ELIZA has discovered two new ELIZAs, which have been added to the github repo:

• A 1978 Lisp ELIZA discovered by Jeff Shrager on this retro-mirror of MIT-AI's ITS system. 

• An apparently nearly completely accurate Java implementation of the original ELIZA by Charles Hayden (repo'ed with permission).

About

This site is dedicated to tracing the legacy ofJoseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA (aka. Doctor) program. The site is curated by Jeff Shrager (jshrager@stanford.edu). 

The site documents Weizenbaum's original ELIZA, written in MAD-SLIP, only recently discovered, as well as  Bernie Cosell's Lisp implementation and other ELIZA-like programs.

Thanks to CommerceNet for their support.

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