Rabbi Joseph Weizenbaum, who retired in 2002 after 44 years in the rabbinate — more than 30 of them in Tucson — died July 1, 2013. He was 80. Weizenbaum, who was senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El for 21 ...

As the world grapples with a flood of Large Language Models, some computer programmers have gone old school, reaching back to ...

In their paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, the team describes the code written in the 1960s by now-deceased MIT ...

Coded and iterated from 1964 to 1967, ELIZA was developed by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. Rudimentary by today’s standards, ELIZA was a hit at the time of its creation. He gave it ...

Joseph Weizenbaum was born in Berlin, Germany, on January 8, 1923. Coming from a Jewish family, he escaped the threats of Nazi Germany by immigrating to the United States with his family in ...

Software archeologists have successfully pulled 'Eliza,' the world's first chatbot from the 1960s, back from digital oblivion ...

A Reform rabbi and an Orthodox rabbi were my mentors, my guides and my inspirations to become a rabbi. Rabbi Joseph Weizenbaum, z’l, the Reform rabbi of my youth, my bat mitzvah, and my teenage ...

Abstract: Joseph Weizenbaum (1923-2008) was a German Jewish refugee who came to the United States with his family at the age of 13. After studying mathematics and computing at Wayne State University, ...

I’ve made in C++ what I think is an accurate simulation of the original ELIZA. It is a console application that takes as input the original format script file, which looks like a series of ...

ELIZA was developed in the 1960s by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum and named for Eliza Doolittle, the protagonist of the play "Pygmalion," who was taught how to speak like an aristocratic British ...

Developed in the 1960s by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum, ELIZA was named after Eliza Doolittle, the protagonist from the play “Pygmalion,” who transforms her speech to pass as a member of ...