Association for Computing Machinery
Leading professional body for computing; publishes key AI research and awards the Turing Award, computing's highest honor.
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ELIZA Developed by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT
In January 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT published a paper in Communications of the ACM describing ELIZA, a computer program that simulated conversation by applying pattern-matching rules to user input, and documented the unexpected tendency of human users to attribute understanding and empathy to the system.