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Joseph Weizenbaum
German American computer scientist (1923–2008)
Joseph Weizenbaum (8 January 1923 – 5 March 2008) was a German Americancomputer scientist and a professor at MIT. The Weizenbaum Award and the Weizenbaum Institute are named after him.
Life and career
Born in Berlin, Germany to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in January 1936, immigrating with his family to the United States. He started studying mathematics in 1941 at Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michigan. In 1942, he interrupted his studies to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a meteorologist, having been turned down for cryptology work because of his "enemy alien" status. After the war, in 1946, he returned to Wayne State, obtaining his B.S. in Mathematics in 1948, and his M.S. in 1950.[1][2]
Around 1952, as a research assistant at Wayne, Weizenbaum worked on analog computers and helped create a digital computer. In 1956, he worked for General Electric on ERMA, a computer system that introduced the use of the magnetically encoded fonts imprinted on the bottom bo
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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.
Education: BS, Wayne University, 1948; MS, Wayne University, 1950.
Professional Experience: systems engineer, Computer Development Laboratory, General Electric Corp., 1955-1963; MIT: visiting associate professor, electrical engineering, 1964, associate professor, 1964-1970, professor, computer science and engineering, 1970-present.
Honors and Awards: fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Weizenbaum started his professional career with the General Electric Corp. at the time that they were working on the project under Barnie Oldfield to create an automated banking operation for the Bank of America, the computer system of which was named ERMA. He developed a programming language which (retrospectively) had the qualities of artificial intelligence (AI). This work led him to an interest in the subject being promulgated by John McCarthy and eventually h
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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 the responsible use of technology are fundamental to the work of the Weizenbaum Institute: the critical exploration and constructive shaping of digitalization - for the benefit of society.
In 2014, the German government decided to establish a "German Internet Institute" to investigate the ethical, legal, economic and participatory aspects of the internet and digitalization. The research association from Berlin and Brandenburg impressed with its basic and interdisciplinary concept, and the institute was opened in Berlin in 2017.
When looking for a name that would fit well with the new institute's program, the focus quickly turned to Joseph Weizenbaum. The German-American computer science pioneer was not only instrumental in the development of the internet and artificial intelligence, but is also still considered one of the greatest and most influential critics of unreflective faith in
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