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Today we are hosting our Retro AI symposium. Come join us for this free event at USC to take an archeological lookback at AI history. calendar.usc.edu/event/retro-...
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Last day to submit! Deadline is today!
Fabian Offert@zentralwerkstatt.org · last mo.Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
Tomorrow begins Retro AI! Drop in if you are on campus. We have same day registration, even if the registration deadline for lunch has passed. bit.ly/retroaiplan
New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚👇
ELIZA was written in MAD-SLIP, not Lisp, as many misremember. Good thing Team ELIZA has Arthur Schwarz, an expert in the language and script! See his contributions to Inventing ELIZA! #ArtificialIntelligence #computerhistory
Just published open-access: @sarahciston.com et al., *Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI* direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon.... @berrydm.bsky.social
Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI
How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventin
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To see The Odyssey reimagined as modern refugee story, play Salt Immortal Sea, with art by Joellyn Rock, game design by John Murray, music by Ken Joseph, and my writing. Online. Best on desk or laptop. jtm.io/static/salti...
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Join us for Retro AI: Archaeologies of Artificial Intelligence, July 31-Aug. 1 at USC, a free symposium sponsored by the Institute on Ethics and Trust in Computing, ELO, and the HaCCS Lab. David Berry is keynoting. Preceded by an AI and the University discussion. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Retro AI: Archaeologies of A.I. Tentative Schedule Register Here Register Here The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has long been obsessively focussed on the next big breakthrough which would...
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Peggy, Art, and I had such a great chat about our new book led by the insightful Claire L Evans! Visitors got to chat with Ant's Javascript version of DOCTOR. Thanks to all who came to Wilshire Online. Inventing ELIZA is in stores now. #ArtificialIntelligence @theuniverse.bsky.social
Join me today for my SIGGRAPH frontier talk on Critical Code Studies. 8am in 408 B #siggraph #siggraph2026
Sunday 3pm at Wilishire Online 6135 Wilshire Blvd. Join Peggy Weil, Art Schwarz, and me for the launch of Inventing ELIZA! Hosted by Claire L Evans RSVP: luma.com/zlrejcp9 #ArtificialIntelligence #computerhistory #critcode @theuniverse.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Join us for Retro AI, a two-day symposium, looking back to AI's past, hosted at USC, sponsored by The Institute on Ethics and Trust in Computing, the HaCCS Lab, and ELO. bit.ly/retroaiplan #RETROAI #ArtificialIntelligence
Join us Sunday, July 19, for a conversation about our new book Inventing ELIZA at Wilshire Online, which is in-person only at 6135 Wilshire Blvd. Peggy Weil, Arthur Schwarz, and I will be hosted by Claire L. Evans The RSVP for the event is here: luma.com/zlrejcp9 @theuniverse.bsky.social
Great to see this excerpt from Inventing ELIZA in Wired! @mitpress.bsky.social @sarahciston.com @pweil.bsky.social
WIRED@wired.com · 3w agoIn the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come. www.wired.com/story/invent...
Join us this Sunday at Wilshire Online for a deep dive on ELIZA’s source code and legacy with three of the co-authors of the new book, Inventing ELIZA! RSVP here: luma.com/zlrejcp9 @markcmarino.bsky.social @pweil.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Inventing Eliza · Luma
60 years ago, MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum created a simple chatbot named ELIZA. Programmed to respond to queries in the style of a Rogerian…
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WIRED@wired.com · 3w agoIn the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come. www.wired.com/story/invent...
Today, Inventing ELIZA hits the shelves. 60 years after the debut of the first chatbot, Team ELIZA offers our four-year exploration of the code and history of the program that started our conversations with computers! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205248... #ArtificialIntelligence #critcode
Come join us for the book launch, LA! Sunday at 3pm!
Claire L. Evans@theuniverse.bsky.social · 4w ago60 years ago, MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot named ELIZA. Programmed to respond in the style of a Rogerian psychotherapist, it proved uncannily absorbing—to the point that Weizenbaum, alarmed by how easily people confided in a computer program, became the first AI critic.
If you're at SIGGRAPH next Monday, come to my morning talk about Critical Code Studies in computer graphics! s2026.conference-schedule.org/presenter/?u... #siggraph #siggraph2026
Anthony (Ant) Hay built a faithful ELIZA / DOCTOR replica you can experience on our InventingEliza.com website and was on the squad that resuscitated the original ELIZA source code. #ArtificialIntelligence #historyofai #computerhistory
Our lead author of Inventing ELIZA, Sarah Ciston, won the major prize at Ars Electronica! Read about her bot ladymouth responding to toxic masculinity with quotes from feminist theory She is Professor of Computational Thinking and Doing at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne @sarahciston.com
Register by July 10 to join us for our 2026 conference, entirely online, free with active membership. July 15-18, hosted by U Central Florida
Join us for our Los Angeles book launch event for Inventing ELIZA! We'll have 3/8 of the TEAM: Peggy Weil, Arthur Schwarz, and me and our host Claire Evans. July 19, 3pm at Wilshire Online (in-person only) 6135 Wilshire Blvd. Sponsored by Tape Los Angeles and Wilshire Online RSVP: luma.com/zlrejcp9
Peggy Weil launched MrMind in 1999, a bot that asked people to prove they were human, flipping rhe Turing Test into the Blurring Test. Years later as we wrestle with these questions, she has joined Team ELIZA. Read all about it July 14 in Inventing ELIZA. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205248...
Inventing ELIZA
As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum’s...
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come do something weird in the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social! Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live and the theme is Creative Misuse. 1) Read the full prompt (drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-...). 2) Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Schrödinger's Game of Life (2015) catseye.tc/installation... #automaton #cellularautomaton #gewgaw #experimental #mashup #nondeterminism #superposition #quantumsuperposition #schrödinger #schroedinger #schrödingerscat #schroedingerscat
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How does telling stories together form forever families? Genevieve and I got to chat with Rachel Fulginiti about the Mrs. Wobbles series and some of our family’s dearest adoption stories on the Foster 2 Forever Podcast. www.fromfoster2forever.com/creating-con...
Honored that Rita Raley shared her take on our book. She is a mentor and a leading voice in Critical AI Studies. The book comes our July 14. #artificialintelligence #criticalai @mitpress.bsky.social @sarahciston.com
Stefanie Tam didn't just design the cover. She designed the interior, combining source code, annotations of that code, and scans of printouts of the code. Here are two excerpts. What a feat! A work of art!
So fun to see Team ELIZA and the ELIZA reanimated team (which have some of the same people) in Science. Glad to see "chatbot royalty" called Jeff Shrager and Peggy Weil celebrated. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Available for pre-order now.
