>From: David Farber <dfarber at numenor.com>
>2) where can i get a technical description (ie detailed enough that i could
>reproduce the program) of the Eliza program?

Peter Norvig, _Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case
Studies in Common Lisp._, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., ISBN
1-55860-191-0

Chapter 5.

or check out the CMU AI repository:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/repository.html

--Vassili