Eliza / Doctor

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Famous "mother of all chatbot" programs by wikipedia:Joseph Weizenbaum. Eliza was in fact a generic engine for producing / conducting interactive dialogues. The "DOCTOR" script became the legendary example of a "Rogerian" psychologist employing mirroring technique to converse with its user as patient.

The original source code seems to be lost (?). A faithful implmentation was made by Charles Hayden in the Java language and included in the CD-ROM of the MIT Press publication: New Media Reader.

Other similar (but not complete) eliza implementations: