{"slug": "inventing-eliza-inventing-eliza-mit-press", "title": "Inventing ELIZA Inventing ELIZA (MIT Press)", "summary": "A new MIT Press book, 'Inventing ELIZA,' provides the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum's early chatbot, revealing rediscovered original source code and previously unseen scripts that show the system was far more sophisticated than previously documented. The book traces ELIZA's development from 1965 to 1968, highlighting innovations ahead of its time within a conversational programming environment.", "body_md": "|\nThis book, subtitled \"How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI\", offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum’s groundbreaking chatbot system through the lens of critical code studies. Drawing on extensive archival research at MIT, Stanford, and UCLA, this book presents the rediscovered original source code of ELIZA alongside previously unseen scripts that had been missing for decades, revealing a far more sophisticated system than previously documented.\n<ASIN:0262052482 >\nSarah Ciston et al trace ELIZA’s development (1965–1968), revealing that Weizenbaum created a chatbot within a conversational programming environment with previously unknown innovations well ahead of its time. Through close reading of both code and paratexts, the book reconstructs ELIZA’s conceptual evolution and situates it within the historical context of early AI development.\nAuthor: Sarah Ciston et al Publisher: The MIT Press Date: July 2026 Pages: 350 ISBN: 978-0262052481 Print: 0262052482 Kindle: B0FM6T8CHY Audience: General Level: Intermediate Category: [Artificial Intelligence](/bookreviews/59-artificial-intelligence.html)\n**For more Book Watch just **[click](http://www.i-programmer.info/book-watch-archive.html).\n*Book Watch is I Programmer's listing of new books and is compiled using publishers' publicity material. It is not to be read as a review where we provide an independent assessment. *\n**To have new titles included in Book Watch contact **[BookWatch@i-programmer.info](mailto:BookWatch@i-programmer.info)\nSubscribe to I Programmer's [Books RSS feed ](http://www.i-programmer.info/component/ninjarsssyndicator/?feed_id=2&format=raw)for each day's new addition to Book Watch and for new reviews.\n** **\n[The Rust Programming Language, 2nd Ed](/bookreviews/14-other-languages/16530-the-rust-programming-language-2e.html)\nAuthor: Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols Publisher: No Starch Press Date: June 2023 Pages: 560 ISBN: 978-1718503106 Print: 1718503105 Kindle: B0B7QTX8LL Audience: Systems programmers Rating: 4.8 Reviewer: Mike James\nThere's a new edition of what has become the standard text on Rust. Has it matured along with [ ... ]\n|\n[Modern Frontend Development with Node.js ](/bookreviews/29-javascript/16358-modern-frontend-development-with-nodejs-.html)\nAuthor: Florian Rappl Publisher: Packt Publishing Date: November 2022 Pages: 208 ISBN: 978-1804618295 Print: 1804618292 Kindle: B0B9BH5WBS Audience: Node.js developers Level: Introductory/Intermediate Rating: 3 Reviewer: Ian Elliot Modern development - what else is there?\n| | More Reviews |\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/inventing-eliza-inventing-eliza-mit-press", "canonical_source": "http://www.i-programmer.info/book-watch-archive/19012-inventing-eliza-inventing-eliza-mit-press.html", "published_at": "2026-07-17 14:44:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-17 15:06:01.613579+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["MIT Press", "Joseph Weizenbaum", "ELIZA", "MIT", "Stanford", "UCLA", "Sarah Ciston"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/inventing-eliza-inventing-eliza-mit-press", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/inventing-eliza-inventing-eliza-mit-press.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/inventing-eliza-inventing-eliza-mit-press.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/inventing-eliza-inventing-eliza-mit-press.jsonld"}}