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.
Weizenbaum in 1982
ELIZA
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ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program developed from 1964 to 1967 at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to explore communication between humans and machines, ELIZA simulated co
Joseph Weizenbaum
…academic appointments at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Bremen, and other universities. In 1966, he published a comparatively simple program called ELIZA, named after the ingénue in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, which could chat to the user. ELIZA was written in the SLIP programming language of…
A conversation between a human and ELIZA's DOCTOR script