Geeky Holidays Party excuses for the geek in everyone.

January 8 birthdays of geeky note:

1923 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author, computer scientist and leading critic of Artificial Intelligence (d. March 5, 2008). He published a natural language processing program in 1966 called ELIZA that became the forerunner of AI technology. Author of Computer Power and Human Reason and subject of the documentary film Weizenbaum. Rebel at Work. [He is also my great uncle! – Yvette]

1942 – Stephen Hawking, a British theoretical physicist whose key scientific works to date have included theorems regarding singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein-Hawking radiation).