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Joseph Weizenbaum

1923 - 2008

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Joseph Weizenbaum (8 January 1923 – 5 March 2008) was a German-American computer scientist and a professor at MIT. He is the namesake of the Weizenbaum Award and the Weizenbaum Institute. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Weizenbaum is the 51st most popular computer scientist (down from 45th in 2019), the 2,410th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,586th in 2019) and the most popular German Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 51 out of 245. Before him are Kevin Mitnick, David Patterson, Thomas E. Kurtz, Mary Kenneth Keller, Juris Hartmanis, and Paul Graham. After him are Bruce Perens, Allen Newell, Leonard Kleinrock, Leslie Lamport, Alan Perlis, and Pierre Bézier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 134. Before him are Judith Kerr, Faas Wilkes, Ann Miller, Peter Vaughan, Mario Brega, and Igor Shafarevich. After him are Ziba Ganiyeva, Uri Avnery, Erroll Garner, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Bob Dole, and Bert Kaempfert. Among people deceased in 2008, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 98. Before him are Eva Dahlbeck, Claude Piron, Dinko Šakić, Rubens de Falco, Paul Frère, and Kon Ichikawa. After him are Ann Savage, Edna Parker, Levy Mwanawasa, Alfred Pfaff, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, and Géza Kalocsay.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 2,411 out of 7,253. Before him are Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613), John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern (1543), Guido Buchwald (1961), Franz Abt (1819), Jens Böhrnsen (1949), and Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528). After him are Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Otto Kuntze (1843), Rahel Varnhagen (1771), Rudolf Rocker (1873), Dorothea Erxleben (1715), and Hannelore Kohl (1933).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Germany

Among computer scientists born in Germany, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 1. After him are Ian Murdock (1973), Rudolf Bayer (1939), Werner Koch (1961), Tron (1972), Daniel Domscheit-Berg (1978), Denny Vrandečić (1978), and Coraline Ada Ehmke (2000).

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