Biography of terry winograd

American professor

Not to be confused with the computer scientist Shmuel Winograd.

Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is an American computer scientist.

He is a professor at Stanford University, and co-director of the Stanford Human–Computer Interaction Group.^[3] He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language using the SHRDLU program.

Education

Winograd grew up in Colorado and graduated from Colorado College in 1966.

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He wrote SHRDLU as a PhD thesis at MIT in the years from 1968–70. In making the program Winograd was concerned with the problem of providing a computer with sufficient "understanding" to be able to use natural language. Winograd built a blocks world, restricting the program's intellectual world to a simulated "world of toy blocks".

The program could accept commands such as, "Find a block which is taller than the one you are holding and put it into the box" and