May 23, 2006
Weizenbaum: Rebel at Work
The website for the documentary film Weizenbaum: Rebel at Work has launched. Joseph Weizenbaum is famous first as a pioneer of computer science at MIT, including inventing Eliza the first virtual persona in 1966. Later he became a vocal critic of military and other unethical uses of technology.
The film comes out in German this summer and English in the fall. I am pleased to report that it includes several segments made by the Electric Sheep to illustrate the nexus of software and mathematics. Furthermore, Eliza and the Sheep both realize a virtual other.
It's even in the trailer, watch it!
Posted by spot at May 23, 2006 02:40 PM
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