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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

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 340,165 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Joseph Weizenbaum is the 49th most popular computer scientist (down from 48th in 2019), the 2,658th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,484th in 2019) and the most popular German Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 49 out of 201. Before him are Don Norman, Leslie Lamport, Fred Brooks, Warren Weaver, Pierre Bézier, and Charles Bachman. After him are Jay Wright Forrester, Alan Perlis, Edwin Catmull, Vernor Vinge, Gil Amelio, and James Gosling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 153. Before him are Igor Shafarevich, Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Ahmet Ertegun, Diana Douglas, Marc Riboud, and Loriot. After him are Jean Hagen, Rhonda Fleming, Holden Roberto, Carl Djerassi, Ferenc Szusza, and Erroll Garner. Among people deceased in 2008, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 111. Before him are Fred Sinowatz, Eva Dahlbeck, Baba Amte, Bronisław Geremek, Albert Cossery, and Anthony Mamo. After him are Boris Shakhlin, Šaban Bajramović, Lazare Ponticelli, Tommy Lapid, Rubens de Falco, and Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 2,658 out of 6,142. Before him are Hans Delbrück (1848), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Carl Ludwig Blume (1796), Otto Schniewind (1887), and Johann Peter Frank (1745). After him are Louise Catherine Breslau (1856), Birutė Galdikas (1946), Friedrich Merz (1955), August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796), John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg (1525), and Abraham Mignon (1640).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Germany

Among computer scientists born in Germany, Joseph Weizenbaum ranks 1. After him are Daniel Domscheit-Berg (1978), Ian Murdock (1973), Werner Koch (1961), and Tron (1972).

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