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19681960s
Terry Winograd
Researcher who advanced natural language understanding with the SHRDLU program.
Organizations
MITStanford University
Major Achievements
- •Created SHRDLU (1968-1970), a program demonstrating highly complex semantic understanding in a restricted blocks world.
- •Shifted his career from AI to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
- •Later became an influential professor and advisor to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Key Papers
- Understanding Natural Language
Terry Winograd · Cognitive Psychology · 1972
Videos
CHI 2016 Plenary: Marissa Mayer in conversation with Terry Winograd
ACM SIGCHI