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From: nolan@tssi.UUCP (Michael Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Your PC as Cognitive Therapist
Summary: Don't read this! It might be booby-trapped!
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Date: 5 Jul 90 16:39:51 GMT
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In article <9302@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu>, cracraft@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes:
> 
> I'd like to announce to Usenet a program for the IBM PC
> and compatibles. It is called "Overcoming Depression."

So what's the scoop on availability?

> The program was designed by Professor Dr. Ken Colby.
> People who have some roots in the A.I. field will recognize
> Colby as a graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, and as
> the creator of the famous "PARRY" program -- a program that
> modeled/simulated paranoid thought processes.

I remember a famous and funny article in DATAMATION, a few lifetimes ago, around
1970, in which PARRY was hooked up with THE DOCTOR, an 'eliza' variant.  This
pair came fairly close to passing the 'turing test', which I suspect has fallen
somewhat by the wayside among current A.I. practitioners. 

Mike Nolan
"Don't look back, someone might be gaining on you"
--Satchel Paige, famous member of the paranoid ballplayers Hall of Fame