meeu565@emx.utexas.edu (Sandeep Mittal) (04/23/91)
I am looking for code of parry program which was written sometime
in 70's regarding simulation of a paranoid mind. It was written by
an MD named Kenneth Mark Colby.I would be very grateful if someone
could give me any leads on it.
thanks
(meeu565@emx.utexas.edu)
cstacy@ai.mit.edu (Christopher C. Stacy) (04/25/91)
In early 1973 Vint Cerf published an ARPANET Network Working Group memo entitled "PARRY encounters the DOCTOR", where they hooked up those two famous hacks and let them talk at each other. They were using PDP-10s at Stanford (PARRY) and BBN (DOCTOR). Maybe someone at Stanford can give you a pointer to the PARRY code, if it's still around anywhere. But unless you are really only interested in archeology, I think you will probably have alot more fun just designing and writing those programs yourself. You'll get to define a personality that amuses you, and it's a good incremental refinement exercise. (I usually use a DOCTOR program as a an introductory workshop assignment when teaching Lisp to beginners, because it's one quick and fun application to demonstrate things like the use of symbols as semantic tokens.)
swcs325@nmt.edu (Stephan Witz) (04/25/91)
In article <47689@ut-emx.uucp> meeu565@emx.utexas.edu (Sandeep Mittal) writes: > I am looking for code of parry program which was written sometime > in 70's regarding simulation of a paranoid mind. It was written by > an MD named Kenneth Mark Colby.I would be very grateful if someone > could give me any leads on it. > thanks > (meeu565@emx.utexas.edu) I don't usually post to this group, but this intrigues me. If anyone knows anything about this, please tell me as well. -stefan@jupiter.nmt.edu
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner) (04/25/91)
Last I knew, Dr. Colby was in the UCLA Medical School. At this point he may very well be retired. You could certainly call and try to speak with him. I don't think anything has been done with PARRY in a long time, and as far as I know, the code never seeped into the public domain the way DOCTOR did.