Oral history interview with Patrick Henry Winston, 1990 Apr. 18 and 1990 May 2.

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Oral history interview with Patrick Henry Winston, 1990 Apr. 18 and 1990 May 2.

Winston focuses on his work in computer science and artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and funding of projects through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Winston discusses: computer science and artificial intelligence research, the work of Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert, the Laboratory for Computer Science and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, his own work in the AI Lab, the programming language FRL, and the changes in DARPA support over time, and the influence of DARPA support on project design.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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