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Joseph Weizenbaum was a German-American computer scientist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the namesake of the Weizenbaum Award and the Weizenbaum Institute.
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Born 8 January 1923 · Died 5 March 2008 · Q75778
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It took me a long time to get over it.
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“In time to save – and save very nearly intact, indeed, to entrench and stabilise – social and political structures that otherwise might have been either radically renovated or allowed to totter under the demands that were sure to be made on them.”
“It took me a long time to get over it.”
“Instead, you went inside of it.”
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Died 2008-03-05.
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Awarded The VIZE 97 Prize (2002).
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Awarded Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2001).
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Weizenbaum moved to Berlin and lived in the vicinity of his childhood neighborhood
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In 1996, Weizenbaum moved to Berlin and lived in the vicinity of his childhood neighborhood.
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Awarded Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility (1988).
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Published a comparatively simple program called ELIZA, named after the ingénue in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, which could chat to the user
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Took a position of associate professor at MIT on the strength of his SLIP (Symmetric List Processing) software
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Entitled "How to Make a Computer Appear Intelligent" that described the strategy used in a Gomoku program that could beat novice players
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Worked for General Electric on ERMA, a computer system that introduced the use of the magnetically encoded fonts imprinted on the bottom border of checks, allowing automated check processing via magnetic ink character
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Studied at Wayne State University, Master of Science (1950).
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Studied at Wayne State University, Bachelor of Science (1941–1948).
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Returned to Wayne State, obtaining his B
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Interrupted his studies to serve in the U
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At Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michigan
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Born 1923-01-08.
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