The ELIZA Blog

News (only the latest new item -- or in some cases, items -- is (are) replicated here. Go to the News page for previous news items.)

20231203: Andrei Korbut, an ethnomethodologist from Belarus now based in Germany, has pointed us to a fascinating recent paper about how ELIZA (and a slightly later conversational program, LYRIC) was used in experiments on human-machine conversation by the most famous ethnomethodologist, Harold Garfinkel. We subsequently made contact with the curator of the Garfinkel archives, Anne Rawls (Bentley University), and the lead of the research team that wrote that paper, Clemens Eisenmann (University of Konstanz, Constance, Germany) who have given us access to the parts of the Garfinkel archive that they have thus far examined. The archive includes, for example, original transcripts from the papers mentioned in the above-mentioned paper, which will be fascinating to visitors of this site. There's lots there, that we'll report as we come across it. 

ELIZA is Turing Complete. In which Ant and Peter (of Team ELIZA) prove (and demonstrate!) that ELIZA is Turing Complete.

Spot the Bot, In which a kid's coding game ends with an ELIZA twist.

A Code-Based ELIZA Phylogeny. In which Jeff describes a pet project of creating a phylogeny of ELIZA-like programs. 

The Mystery of ELIZA's Teachability. In which we muse about a little-known fact of the original ELIZA.