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Inventing ELIZA
2026
MIT Press
Publication

MIT Press’s 2026 publication Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI highlights the work of Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1960s chatbot, detailing human-computer bonds, critical code studies, and the roots of modern artificial intelligence.

ST designed the publication for authors Sarah Ciston, David M. Berry, Anthony C. Hay, Mark C. Marino, Peter Millican, Arthur I. Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, and Peggy Weil and publisher MIT Press.
  

MIT Press’s 2026 publication Inventing ELIZA can be purchased at mitpress.mit.edu.

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