Resources

Resources

Editions, source code, archives and related work on ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum, and the reading of code as a cultural text.

The book

Inventing ELIZA, the book, MIT Press.
Inventing ELIZA (open access), the full book, free to read, MIT Press Direct.

Code and recreations

critical-code-studies/ELIZA, the source for this site, the recovered MAD-SLIP listing and the DOCTOR script.
anthay/ELIZA, Anthony Hay’s historically exact C++ recreation, with scripts.

Archives and genealogy

ELIZAGEN, tracing the legacy of Weizenbaum’s ELIZA (DOCTOR) program, edited by Jeff Shrager.
MIT Distinctive Collections, the 1965 ELIZA printout in Weizenbaum’s archive.

Writing and scholarship

Reading ELIZA: CCS in Action, Berry and Marino, Electronic Book Review.

Related projects and media

SHRDLU, the companion CCS reading of Winograd’s SHRDLU (1968–70).
The ELIZA Effect, 99% Invisible podcast episode.