Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer programmer who invented the natural-language-understanding program known as ELIZA and later grew skeptical of artificial intelligence, has died, his family said Thursday.

Researchers have successfully revived "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, utilizing original computer code that had been forgotten for nearly 60 years. Found in dusty printouts within the MIT archives ...

Her name was ELIZA. And to many who interacted with her, she was a great listener. In fact, ELIZA was a computer program — one of the most baffling and controversial experiments in artificial ...