What is Joseph Weizenbaum?
{{unsourced|date=March 2016}} [[File:Joseph Weizenbaum.jpg|thumb|Weizenbaum, in 2005]] '''Joseph Weizenbaum''' (8 January 1923 - 5 March 2008) was a [[Germans|German]]-[[Americans|American]] [[mathematician]] and [[computer science|computer scientist]]. He was born in [[Berlin]]. He became famous for writing the program [[ELIZA]], which simulated a doctor, in the 1960s. He also became well-known for having a critical attitude to what computers can and should do. Weizenbaum died of a [[stroke]] at age 85, in 2008. {{DEFAULTSORT:Weizenbaum, Joseph}} [[Category:1923 births]] [[Category:2005 deaths]] [[Category:German mathematicians]] [[Category:Scientists from Berlin]]