ELIZA

Eliza (Weizenbaum 1966) is the first chatterbot -- a computer program that mimics human conversation. In only about 200 lines of computer code, Eliza models the behavior of a psychiatrist (or, more specifically, the "active listening" strategies of a touchy-feely 1960s Rogerian therapist).

(Source: Dennis G. Jerz's site)

Critical writing that references this work:

Title	Author	Year
Computer Power and Human Reason	Joseph Weizenbaum	1976
Continuous Paper	Nick Montfort	2004
Continuous Paper: Print Interfaces and Early Computer Writing	Nick Montfort	2004
ELIZA Revisited	Noah Wardrip-Fruin	2008
ELIZA — A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication...	Joseph Weizenbaum	1966
Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies	Noah Wardrip-Fruin	2009
Fiction and Interaction: How Clicking a Mouse Can Make You Part of a Fictional World	Jill Walker Rettberg	2003
Original Chat: Exploring the Origins of the Turing Test	Mark C. Marino	2008
Provocation by Program: Imagining a Next-Revolution Eliza	Nick Montfort, Andrew Stern	2008
What is the Point of Compulit?	Marie-Laure Ryan	1998

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Electronic Literature (DIKULT 203, Fall 2012)	Leonardo Flores	Syllabus	2012

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Bots!

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