Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!sun13!murray From: murray@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (John Murray) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Voice Recognition Info Request Message-ID: <2691@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 5 Apr 91 19:15:26 GMT References: <1991Mar15.171949.13836@infonode.ingr.com> <1895@hpwala.wal.hp.com> Organization: SCRI, Florida State University Lines: 27 In article melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) writes: >>For those of you not familiar with AI , eliza is a program, written in >>LISP, which pretends to be a psycho analyist by parroting back some of >>your phrases, modified slightly. > >I thought it was originally written in BASIC or FORTRAN (although I'm >not quite sure). From what I have heard, it was written sometime in the >1960's, and psychoanalysts were excited for a while about the possible >applications for ELIZA in repetitive therapy (or whatever the technical >term was). :-) If anyone cares, (can you tell whether I do?) according to (yecch!) The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Vol I (Barr & Feigenbaum, '81), ELIZA was written by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in '66 (Comm. ACM, V9, pp36-45). It was written in the SLIP (Symmetric List Processor) language, also developed by Weizenbaum in '63 (Comm. ACM V6 pp524-544). Sounds like a LISP derivative to me, and the few snippets of rules/whatnot in B & F's 2-page description seem to confirm my suspicions. >John B. Melby -- *Standard Disclaimers Apply*| ---Get Out Of HELL Free!--- John R. Murray |The bearer of this card is entitled to forgive murray@vsjrm.scri.fsu.edu |Himself of all Sins, Errors and Transgressions. Supercomputer Research Inst.| -- D. Owen Rowley