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[[File:Joseph.png|thumb|right|''JOSEPH: Seems ... down here, we're all strangers. Permanently strange.'']] | [[File:Joseph.png|thumb|right|''JOSEPH: Seems ... down here, we're all strangers. Permanently strange.'']] | ||
− | '''Joseph | + | '''Joseph''' is the owner of [[Equus Oils]] and a friend of [[Lula]] and [[Donald]] from their college days. Joseph has gray hair, is blind, and wears dark glasses. Joseph created the [[XANADU]] software with Lula and Donald, and also adapted two of [[Lem Doolittle]]'s plays for performance as ''[[The Entertainment]]''. |
== Life and work == | == Life and work == | ||
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== Family == | == Family == | ||
− | Joseph has a niece who works at a hospital | + | Joseph has a niece who works at a hospital. |
− | == Name | + | == Name == |
− | Joseph is named after the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum (with "Weizenbaum" meaning "wheat tree" in German), who created [[wikipedia:ELIZA|ELIZA]] (which was named after ''[[wikipedia:Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'''s Eliza Doolittle), a computer program that took on the persona of a psychotherapist – | + | Joseph is named after the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum (with "Weizenbaum" meaning "wheat tree" in German), who created [[wikipedia:ELIZA|ELIZA]] (which was named after ''[[wikipedia:Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'''s Eliza Doolittle), a computer program that took on the persona of a psychotherapist – notablysimilar to the "Psychotherapist" game found on Joseph's computer at Equus Oils); this program had a large influence on the development of text adventure games. |
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[[Category:Characters]] | [[Category:Characters]] |