# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-weizenbaum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:39:56.624Z

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name: "Joseph Weizenbaum"
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description: "Joseph Weizenbaum was a German-American computer scientist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the namesake of the Weizenbaum Award and the Weizenbaum Institute."
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birthDate: "1923-01-08"
deathDate: "2008-03-05"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump