Inventing ELIZA Inventing ELIZA (MIT Press) 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. | This 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.