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David M. Berry: Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI Lambda or the right to beMIT Press, 2026, softcover, 296 pages, 15. 2 x 22. 9 cm How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and societys response to them. As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZAs public debut, Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaums groundbreaking chatbot system through the lens of critical code studies. Drawing upon extensive archival research at MIT, Stanford, and UCLA, this book presents the