[TriLUG] OT: early computer program that played the role of a psychologist

[Mats Rynge]

Joseph Mack NA3T (jmack at wm7d.net) wrote:
> I'm writing something that talks about the Turing test for 
> human mimicry. I remember an early computer program that ran 
> on a teletype/console that played the role of a 
> psychologist. It was very simple minded but fooled many 
> people, who were upset when it was disconnected. I thought 
> the computer program's name was LISA.

You are probably thinking about ELIZA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

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Mats Rynge
Renaissance Computing Institute <http://www.renci.org>