Oral history interview with Terry Winograd, 1991 Dec. 11.

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Oral history interview with Terry Winograd, 1991 Dec. 11.

Winograd describes his education in computer science and introduction to linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He discusses the work of Marvin Minsky and others in artificial intelligence. He describes his move to the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and his additional linguistic research at Xerox-PARC. Winograd compares the approach to artificial intelligence at MIT and Stanford. He describes his involvement with obtaining funding from the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Computer scientist. From the description of Oral history interview with Terry Winograd, 1991 Dec. 11. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63309580 ...

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