Joseph Weizenbaum (8 January 1923 – 5 March 2008) was a German American computer scientist and a professor at MIT. The Weizenbaum Award and the Weizenbaum Institute are named after him.

Mar 10, 2008 · Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor emeritus of computer science at MIT who grew skeptical of artificial intelligence after creating a program that made many users feel like they were speaking with an empathic psychologist, died March 5 in Berlin. He was 85.

Jan 22, 2025 · Joseph Weizenbaum was born in Berlin, Germany, on January 8, 1923. Coming from a Jewish family, he escaped the threats of Nazi Germany by immigrating to the United States with his family in ...

Mar 13, 2008 · Joseph Weizenbaum, whose famed conversational computer program, Eliza, foreshadowed the potential of artificial intelligence, but who grew skeptical about the potential for technology to improve...

Joseph Weizenbaum was a professor emeritus of computer science at MIT. Born in Berlin to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in 1936, emigrating with his family to the United States. He started studying mathematics in 1941 in the US, but his studies were interrupted by the war, during which he served in the military.

Joseph Weizenbaum. Born January 8, 1923, Berlin, Germany; inventor in 1965 of ELIZA, the mechanical psychiatrist, who first warned of the dangers of confusing computers with people and vice versa.

Born in 1923 to Jewish parents, Joseph Weizenbaum fled Nazi Germany for the USA in 1936 and later studied mathematics. As an assistant at Wayne University in Detroit, he started working with computers, wrote the Slip programming language, designed the computer system for the Bank of America (in 1955), and taught as a guest lecturer at Stanford ...

Mar 14, 2008 · Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer programmer who invented the natural-language-understanding program known as ELIZA and later grew skeptical of artificial intelligence, has died, his family...

Our institute is named after the German-American computer science pioneer Joseph Weizenbaum (1923 - 2008). His examination of the relationship between computers and society as well as his call for a responsible approach to technology are fundamental to the work of the Weizenbaum Institute.

Mar 14, 2008 · Joseph Weizenbaum, professor emeritus of computer science at MIT who grew skeptical of artificial intelligence after creating a program that made many users feel like they were speaking with an empathic psychologist, died March 5 in Berlin. He was 85.