http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/valleywag.com.png http://valleywag.com/tag/joseph weizenbaum http://valleywag.com/tag/joseph weizenbaum 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.

]]> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:16:01 PDT Paul Boutin http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=368279&view=rss&microfeed=true