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Joseph Weizenbaum

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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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1923 1
Birth Date
1923-01-08 2
Death Year
2008 1
Death Date
2008-03-05 2
Award
Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1
Award
Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility 1
Award
The VIZE 97 Prize 1
Connections

In Field

Source IEEE Computer Society History Committee: Computer Pioneers: Joseph Weizenbaum

Invented

Source SLIP (programming language) (Wikipedia)

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Source Wikipedia: Joseph Weizenbaumtier 2

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1. Wikidata: Joseph Weizenbaum
Wikidata Q75778, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
2. Wikipedia: Joseph Weizenbaum
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5 March 2008
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IEEE Computer Society History Committee: Computer Pioneers: Joseph Weizenbaum
IEEE Computer Society History CommitteeIn Field: Natural Language Processing, Biography header
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inventor in 1965 of ELIZA, the mechanical psychiatrist
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SLIP (programming language) (Wikipedia)
Invented: SLIP (programming language), Lead sentence
Quote, Invented: SLIP (programming language), Lead sentence
SLIP is a list processing computer programming language, invented by Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s.
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