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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Weizenbaum has received more than 365,616 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Joseph Weizenbaum is the 45th most popular computer scientist (up from 49th in 2019), the 2,586th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,655th in 2019) and the most popular German Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 45 out of 245. Before him are Alan Perlis, Frances E. Allen, Edmund M. Clarke, Charles Bachman, Amir Pnueli, and J. C. R. Licklider. After him are John Cocke, James Gosling, Brian Kernighan, Nolan Bushnell, Fred Brooks, and Leslie Lamport.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 145. Before him are Diana Douglas, Hans Riegel, Peter Lawford, Peter Vaughan, Edward Mulhare, and Bob Dole. After him are Gordon Mitchell, Pahiño, Faas Wilkes, Maria Gripe, Ferenc Szusza, and Constantin Dăscălescu. Among people deceased in 2008, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 109. Before him are Albert Cossery, Vice Vukov, Charles Tilly, Dora Ratjen, Suzanne Pleshette, and Géza Kalocsay. After him are Maila Nurmi, Jean-Daniel Cadinot, Donald E. Westlake, Rubens de Falco, Tsutomu Miyazaki, and Andrew Bertie.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 2,586 out of 7,253. Before him are George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779), Götz George (1938), Helene Mayer (1910), George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1784), Hermann Muthesius (1861), and Otto Warburg (1859). After him are Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt (1573), Hermann Priess (1901), Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental (1652), William III, Duke of Bavaria (1375), Anna of Hesse (1529), and Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1862).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Germany

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

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