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Joseph Weizenbaum, an MIT professor whose work, the Wall Street Journal eulogizes, "led him to preach the evils of computers," passed away March 5 in his native Germany. Word just hit the news wires last night. The Journal's bio includes this quote: "The Internet is like one of those garbage dumps outside of Bombay. There are people, most unfortunately, crawling all over it, and maybe they find a bit of aluminum, or perhaps something they call sell. But mainly it's garbage." A more fitting tribute to Weizenbaum is this Web-based Eliza. Spend twenty minutes with it and I'll bet that to the annoyance of Weizenbaum's ghost, you'll come to learn something about yourself.
Eliza creator dead at 85
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10:16 PM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Paul Boutin
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I'm sorry to hear about Eliza creator dead at 85
I think the internet helps us share knowledge. Eventually, the software tools will exist where we can massively collaborate on breaking into space. Once we're in space, the internet will make us feel like we're still connected.
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