In the series HMKV Video of the Month, HMKV from November 2015 to February 2016, as part of the exhibition (Artificial Intelligence) Digitale Demenz, the US artist Brendan Howell is presenting a screening programme based on the videos he has selected for the project website www.ddai.de.
Brendan Howell presents: Terry Winograd's SHRDLU
HMKV Video of the Month
On view 1 – 31 January 2016
SHRDLU is a program for understanding natural language, written by Terry Winograd at the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1968-70. SHRDLU carried on a simple dialog (via teletype) with a user, about a small world of objects (the BLOCKS world) shown on an early display screen (DEC-340 attached to a PDP-6 computer). Terry Allen Winograd (*1946) is an Americanprofessor of computer science at Stanford University. SHRDLU was an early "breakthrough" AI which turned out to be a dead end when the software was applied to more complex, realistic situations. Starting in 1995, Winograd served as adviser to Stanford PhD student Larry Page, who was working on a research project involving web search. In 1998, Page took a leave of absence from Stanford to co-found Google.
Brendan Howell presents:
Terry Winograd's SHRDLU
Video, 8:29 Min.