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5 unusual facts about Joseph Weizenbaum


Adrianne Wortzel

The installation took Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA program and embodied it in physical robot's form installed in East Village in New York.

Dialog tree

The first computer dialogue system was featured in ELIZA, a primitive natural language processing computer program written by Joseph Weizenbaum between 1964 and 1966.

International Student Week in Ilmenau

During the festival there are also many lectures, the most well-known speakers are until this day Robert Jungk, Joseph Weizenbaum, Helmut Schmidt and Konrad Zuse.

Joseph Weizenbaum

Weizenbaum modeled its conversational style after Carl Rogers, who introduced the use of open-ended questions to encourage patients to communicate more effectively with therapists.

Joseph Weizenbaum (8 January 1923 – 5 March 2008) was a German and American computer scientist and a professor emeritus at MIT.



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