Terry Winograd

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Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946 in Takoma Park , Maryland ) is an American computer scientist, known for research on Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Winograd 2006

Winograd studied at Colorado College (bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1966) and after a year as a Fulbright scholar at University College London in 1967, where he studied linguistics, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There he developed the SHRDLU for his dissertation (1970) in his AI lab with Seymour Papert and Marvin Minsky from 1968 to 1970 , a program that was supposed to try to converse in natural language about a toy world made of building blocks and the difficulties of programming natural dialogues. From 1970 to 1973 he was an instructor in mathematics and an assistant professor of electrical engineering at MIT.

In 1973 he went to Stanford University , where he continued his research in AI to understand natural languages ​​in the 1970s. In addition, worked from 1972 to 1983 in the laboratories of the nearby Xerox Parc research center. However, only the first volume of a planned series of books Language as a cognitive process was published (1983, on syntax ). In 1974 he was assistant professor, in 1979 associate professor and from 1989 professor at Stanford.

In 2005 he was a founding member of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design ( d-school ) in Stanford. His teaching activity at Stanford was interrupted by stays at Google in 2002/03 , where he has been a consultant from 2001 (Google co-founder Larry Page was a student of Winograd who left university in 1998 to found Google), and in 1992/93 at Interval Research, for which he worked as a consultant from 1993 to 1998. Other long-term consulting activities were at Action Technologies in Alameda from 1987 to 1996 and from 2004 for xRefer.

In the 1980s, under the influence of the criticism of Hubert Dreyfus and the encounter with the Chilean philosopher Fernando Flores , with whom he wrote a book critical of AI, he increasingly turned away from classical AI research. Instead, he turned to human-computer communication and software engineering (e.g. design thinking ).

He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, whose council he was a founding member from 1984 and of which he was president from 1987 to 1990. In the early 1980s they criticized the involvement of computer scientists in research for military purposes.

He is married to the now emeritus professor of medicine at Stanford Carol Hunter Winograd and has two daughters.

Hector Levesque named one of his proposed alternatives to the Turing test Winograd Schema Challenge after Winograd.

Fonts

  • Understanding natural language, Academic Press 1972
  • Language as a cognitive process, Vol.1 Syntax, Addison-Wesley 1983
  • with Fernando Flores: Understanding computers and cognition: a new foundation of design, Ablex Pub., 1986
  • with Paul S. Adler (editor): Usability- turning technologies into tools, Oxford University Press 1992
  • with John Bennett, Laura De Young, Bradley Hartfield (editors): Bringing Design to Software, ACM Press 1996
  • Beyond programming languages, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 22, July 1979, p. 391
  • What does it mean to understand natural language ?, Cognitive Science, Vol. 4, 1980, p. 209
  • Heidegger and the Design of Computer Systems. In: Conference on Applied Heidegger, Berkeley, September, 1989.
  • with Brad Johanson, Armando Fox: Interactive Workspaces, IEEE Computer, Vol. 36, 2003, pp. 99-103.
  • Interaction Spaces for 21st Century Computing, in John Carroll (Editor), Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium, Addison-Wesley, 2001.
  • Thinking machines: Can there be? Are We ?, in James Sheehan, Morton Sosna (Editor): The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1990 (also in D. Partridge, Y. Wilks (Editor), The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990).
  • A language / action perspective on the design of cooperative work, in Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 1987–88, pp. 3–30 (reprinted in Irene Greif (editor): Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings, San Mateo, Morgan-Kaufmann, 1988, pp. 623-653)

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References

  1. ↑ in which at the same time the well-known AI scientists Eugene Charniak , David Waltz , Gerald Jay Sussman , Patrick Winston were PhD students
personal data
SURNAME Winograd, Terry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winograd, Terry Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Takoma Park , Maryland