created by Joseph Weizenbaum 1966
simulated a conversation with a psychotherapist by using pattern matching and substitution
- was one of the first chatterbots; one of the first programs capable of attempting the Turing test
- used pattern matching
- Pretends to be a Rogerian psychologist
15 years before the personal computer became familiar to the general public (!!!)
Source code made Public Domain
Named after Eliza Doolittle from Shaw’s play Pygmalion
See also: Alicebot