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In article <MELBY.91Apr3042124@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP> melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) writes:
>>For those of you not familiar with AI , eliza is a program, written in
>>LISP, which pretends to be a psycho analyist by parroting back some of
>>your phrases, modified slightly.
>
>I thought it was originally written in BASIC or FORTRAN (although I'm
>not quite sure).  From what I have heard, it was written sometime in the
>1960's, and psychoanalysts were excited for a while about the possible
>applications for ELIZA in repetitive therapy (or whatever the technical
>term was).  :-)

If anyone cares, (can you tell whether I do?) according to (yecch!) The
Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Vol I (Barr & Feigenbaum, '81),
ELIZA was written by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in '66 (Comm. ACM, V9,
pp36-45). It was written in the SLIP (Symmetric List Processor) language,
also developed by Weizenbaum in '63 (Comm. ACM V6 pp524-544). Sounds like a
LISP derivative to me, and the few snippets of rules/whatnot in B & F's
2-page description seem to confirm my suspicions.


>John B. Melby

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