Inventing ELIZA

Sarah Ciston is the author of A Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets and of interactive Critical AI tutorials using p5.js, funded by Google Season of Docs.

David M. Berry is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Critical Theory and the Digital, The Philosophy of Software, and Digital Humanities.

Anthony C. Hay has a degree in Computer Science from Imperial College, London.

Mark C. Marino, Director, is Professor (Teaching) of Writing at the University of Southern California, where he directs the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab. He is also a 2023–24 Generative AI Fellow. His previous books include 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (MIT Press) with Nick Montfort et al., Reading Project with Jessica Pressman and Jeremy Douglass, and Critical Code Studies (MIT Press).

Peter Millican is Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, University of Oxford. He is also Professor in Philosophy at the National University of Singapore and Visiting Professor in Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University.

Jeff Shrager is a cognitive scientist and entrepreneur with deep technical experience in both modern and classic AI. In the early 1970 he wrote a BASIC version of ELIZA that was published in Creative Computing, introducing the entire PC generation to conversational AI.

Arthur Schwarz develops and supports software algorithms and language design and development of products for public use, and is the former Chair of the Orange County IEEE Cybersecurity SIG.

Peggy Weil is a multi-disciplinary artist working in Los Angeles and teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.