Joseph Weizenbaum

Joseph Weizenbaum (born with Berlin the January 8th 1923) is a Professor emeritus of Informatique to the MIT.

Biography

Born in Berlin from Jewish parents, he flees the Nazi Germany in 1936, and emigrates with his family with the the United States. He studies mathematics starting from 1941 there, but its studies are stopped by the war, during which he is engaged in the rows of the soldiers. In the neighborhoods of 1950, he works on the analog computers, and helps with the creation of a electronic computer for the Wayne State University . In 1955, it works for General Electric on the first computer used for bankings.

In 1963, it enters with MIT. It publishes three years later a famous computer program known under the name of “ELIZA”, a conversational Agent which simulates a conversation with a psychotherapist rogérien.

Work

"ELIZA - With Computer Program for the Study off Natural Language Communication between Man and Machine, " Communications off the Association for Computing Machinery 9 (1966): 36-45.
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation , San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1976 ISBN 0-7167-0464-1

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