Splotch is an Eliza clone developed by Duane Fields at TAMU in 1992. The first Eliza was written by Weizenbaum as a 'computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine' and surprised its creator with its effectiveness in convincing some that it was a real person. The first Eliza implementations were designed to mimic Rogerian psychotherapists who treated patients by making them talk about their problems. Splotch, on the other hand, was intended to mimic someone chatting on IRC. As such, it has quite an informal style of conversation and makes a good and quite entertaining conversationist.
This Applet includes code found at http://smapp.gis.de (look for 'Eliza')
Dont look there! It's an old domain of mine, long gone. Paukstadt 25.Dec 2004

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