Back in 1843, long before computers shaped the modern world, Ada Lovelace, a 27-year-old British mathematician, saw a future no one else did. She imagined a machine that didn’t just crunch numbers but ...
The first computer program to simulate human conversation was ELIZA, developed by computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum (USA, b. DEU) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1964 and 1966.