Editing Joseph Weizenbaum (section)

==Life and career==
Born in Berlin, Germany to Jewish parents, he escaped [[Nazi Germany]] in January 1936, immigrating with his family to the [[United States]]. He started studying mathematics in 1941 at [[Wayne State University]], in Detroit, Michigan. In 1942, he interrupted his studies to serve in the [[United States Army Air Corps|U.S. Army Air Corps]] as a meteorologist, having been turned down for cryptology work because of his "[[enemy alien]]" status. After the war, in 1946, he returned to Wayne State, obtaining his B.S. in Mathematics in 1948, and his M.S. in 1950.<ref>IEEE Computer Society, [http://computer.org/computer-pioneers/weizenbaum.html "Computer Pioneers - Joseph Weizenbaum"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407061221/http://computer.org/computer-pioneers/weizenbaum.html |date=2014-04-07 }}, 1995.</ref><ref name="lowbio" />

Around 1952, as a research assistant at Wayne, Weizenbaum worked on [[analog computer]]s and helped create a digital computer. In 1956, he worked for [[General Electric]] on [[Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting|ERMA]], a computer system that introduced the use of the magnetically encoded fonts imprinted on the bottom border of checks, allowing automated check processing via [[magnetic ink character recognition]] (MICR). He published a short paper in [[Datamation]] in 1962 entitled "How to Make a Computer Appear Intelligent" that described the strategy used in a [[Gomoku]] program that could beat novice players. 

In 1963 he took a position of associate professor at MIT on the strength of his [[SLIP (programming language)|SLIP]] (Symmetric List Processing) software.  Within four years, he had been awarded tenure and a full professorship in computer science and engineering (in 1970).<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Berry |first=David M. |date=2023 |title=The Limits of Computation: Joseph Weizenbaum and the ELIZA Chatbot |url=https://ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds/article/view/106 |journal=Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society |volume=3 |issue=3 |issn=2748-5625}}</ref> In addition to working at MIT, Weizenbaum held academic appointments at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Bremen, and other universities.<ref>{{Cite web |last=anonymous |date=2008 |title=Joseph Weizenbaum, professor emeritus of computer science, 85 |url=https://news.mit.edu/2008/obit-weizenbaum-0310 |access-date=27 Jan 2023 |website=MIT}}</ref>