Joseph Weizenbaum

(1923–2008) Computer Scientist Germany

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Joseph Weizenbaum was a computer scientist from Germany, best known for Die Macht der Computer und die Ohnmacht der Vernunft.

Quick Facts About Joseph Weizenbaum

Born: January 8, 1923
Died: March 5, 2008
Nationality: Germany
Profession: Computer Scientist
Notable works: Die Macht der Computer und die Ohnmacht der Vernunft
Known for: Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, ELIZA, SLIP

About Joseph Weizenbaum

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.

Awards & Honors

The VIZE 97 Prize Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility

Quotes by Joseph Weizenbaum

“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in…

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Artificial intelligence

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A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

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Computer

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Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than…

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Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow,…

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Book

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The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created…

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Complexity

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Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and…

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The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor,…

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Actors

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I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is…

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Adults

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“I cannot tell why the spokesmen I have cited want the developments I forecast to become true. Some of them have told…

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Computers

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“It is a widely held but a grievously mistaken belief that civil courage finds exercise only in the context of world-shaking events.…

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Courage

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“If the teacher, if anyone, is to be an example of a whole person to others, he must first strive to be…

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Courage

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Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers…

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Aliens

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“I have spoken here of what ought and ought not to be done, of what is morally repugnant, and of what is…

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“Our time prides itself on having finally achieved the freedom from censorship for which libertarians in all ages have struggled...The credit for…

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Censorship

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