Terry Winograd is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language using the SHRDLU program.
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10 Facts About Terry Winograd
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In making the program Terry Winograd was concerned with the problem of providing a computer with sufficient "understanding" to be able to use natural language.
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Terry Winograd built a blocks world, restricting the program's intellectual world to a simulated "world of toy blocks".
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In 1973, Terry Winograd moved to Stanford University and developed an AI-based framework for understanding natural language which was to give rise to a series of books.
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Terry Winograd's approach shifted away from classical Artificial Intelligence after encountering the critique of cognitivism by Hubert Dreyfus and meeting with the Chilean philosopher Fernando Flores.
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In 2002, Terry Winograd took a sabbatical from teaching and spent some time at Google as a visiting researcher.
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Recently, Terry Winograd has continued to research collaborative computing, including uses of ubiquitous computing in collaborative work.
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Terry Winograd continues to do research at Stanford and teach classes and seminars in human–computer interaction.
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Terry Winograd is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and received the SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award in 2011.
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