Reanimating ELIZA, the world’s first chatbot <b>Inventing ELIZA</b> <i>Sarah Ciston, David M. Berry, Anthony C. Hay, Mark C. Marino, Peter Millican, Jeff Shrager, Arthur I. Schwarz, Peggy Weil</i> The MIT Press, 2026. 350 pp.
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Simson L. Garfinkel
(The reviewer is chief scientist and chief operating officer of BasisTech, Somerville, MA, USA; an adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA; and a US special government employee.)
Abstract
A simple program created in the 1960s laid the groundwork for future conversational computers
Article Details
Journal
Science
Volume / Issue
Vol. 392, Issue 6804
Published
June 18, 2026
Pages
1249-1249
ISSN
0036-8075
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Journal Info
Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science
ISSN: 0036-8075 Social Sciences
Authors (1)
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Simson L. Garfinkel
The reviewer is chief scientist and chief operating officer of BasisTech, Somerville, MA, USA; an adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA; and a US special government employee.
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